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Recent Examples of arguable But the rest of the league didn’t need the arguable title favorites to find that help. Fred Katz, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 While Musk repeated his gesture only twice, there is an arguable similarity, regardless of Musk's intention. John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025 Natural saltwater pearls are arguable the rarest gems in the world. Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 Lanthimos is many things — a champion absurdist, an arguable nihilist, an occasional edgelord, and an artist who has maintained a decidedly Euro sensibility despite having worked in English with Hollywood actors since 2015. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for arguable
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Adjective
  • Gordon will officially be listed as questionable for Sunday afternoon’s contest at Paycom Center, team sources told The Athletic.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • The Trump Administration has unleashed a torrent of unconstitutional executive orders and other questionable legal actions; with many of them, its goal seems less to win in the end than to inflict as much damage as possible along the way.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Whether tariffs are good policy or not is debatable.
    Vicki Abeles, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
  • What is not debatable is that the US-Ukraine minerals deal, while hollow in immediate extractive gain for the US and in many respects a Trump defeat, heralds a new age.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025

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“Arguable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arguable. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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