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- adverb In a way subject to challenge or worthy of debate.
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Examples
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Apparently humans have found another debatably cruel use for snails beyond escargot.
Giant Snails Used To Monitor Air Pollution The Huffington Post 2011
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A critic in the Guardian called the novel "an ill-advised, debatably insensitive" project; a BBC commentator argued that a such a sensational subject was beneath a literary novelist.
The Ex-Princess Diaries Alexandra Alter 2011
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Mike Leigh's new play is called Grief – a stark choice of title that, debatably, gives away too much.
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Apparently humans have found another debatably cruel use for snails beyond escargot.
Giant Snails Used To Monitor Air Pollution The Huffington Post 2011
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Apparently humans have found another debatably cruel use for snails beyond escargot.
Giant Snails Used To Monitor Air Pollution The Huffington Post 2011
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Considering that he is debatably the cutest polar bear ever although one could make a solid argument for Knut we thought we ought to share these newest images of adorableness.
Siku, Polar Bear Cub, Raised At Scandinavian Wildlife Park (PHOTOS) 2011
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But deciding that people from that country should be subjected to heightened scrutiny at our domestic checkpoints … that seems to fall into the arena of debatably reasonable policy.
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But human qualities -- the characteristics that are debatably cultural or genetic -- are at least as unlikely as institutions to follow a path of stability interrupted by rapid evolution.
Interview with Gregory Clark, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Apparently humans have found another debatably cruel use for snails beyond escargot.
Giant Snails Used To Monitor Air Pollution The Huffington Post 2011
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That's right: With its consistent break off of a jetty, Rockaway Beach is (debatably) one of the best places in the country to surf.
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