refutable

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Adjective
  • On the flip side, the Rams giving up Stafford and replacing him with an older and arguable lesser option with Rodgers would put Los Angeles in a bit of a bind in terms of their attempts to return to the deeper postseason position in 2025.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Of course, the biggest need on that list is an arguable one.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The debate, according to Wolf, was ultimately rendered moot by one of the five selections made before the Patriots drafted Henderson at 38th overall.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In the face of the rapid expansion of fast food outlets, which may lead to other health issues, the right decision for local communities may be a moot point.
    BYAlex Ledsom, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Whether tariffs are good policy or not is debatable.
    Vicki Abeles, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • Clark took a series of questionable fouls from Reese's Sky throughout the 2024 season, including one from Reese June 16.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 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
  • Ahead of a second round of talks set to take place in Rome this weekend, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday that Iran's right to enrich uranium is not negotiable.
    Guy Faulconbridge and Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The bill caps the fund at $800 million, but Fonfara said the figure is negotiable.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Rust — The controversial Alec Baldwin movie in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot to death during filming — is a bust in its opening weekend in theaters.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • Fifty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended with North Vietnamese troops taking Saigon, bringing an end to what had been America’s most controversial war.
    Stan Godlewski, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2025
Adjective
  • YouTube footage of the game is grainy and inconclusive.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
  • Black smoke plumed from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday night, indicating an inconclusive first vote.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 May 2025
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“Refutable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refutable. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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