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Arguable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
  • (2) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (3) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (4) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
  • (5) Goalkeeper Pepe Reina had arguably his worst season at Liverpool in 2011-12 and Rodgers may be tempted to bring Michel Vorm with him from Swansea City.
  • (6) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
  • (7) With its huge corps of jihadists hardened by years of fighting in Kashmir, it is arguably too big to confront at a time when Pakistan is battling the TTP.
  • (8) Arguably the national interest would have been better served if some of that dividend cash had been diverted to research that would produce new technologies, and new jobs, 10 years from now.
  • (9) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
  • (10) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (11) Picking positives from a third successive league loss, the first time Chelsea have endured that since Gianluca Vialli’s stewardship, must have felt onerous even if Willian was excellent once again and Eden Hazard – for all that he has gone 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal – arguably produced his best performance of the season.
  • (12) His seventh goal of the season was arguably his most important.
  • (13) The name may have changed, but the play and many of its leading characters remain the same – arguably the most brutal and tragic situation anywhere in the world during the last 20 years.
  • (14) While the ice’s extent is readily visible from satellites, ice thickness has been more difficult to measure, and it is arguably the more important dimension in measuring the volume of ice being lost.
  • (15) Impressively, David Axelrod left the White House and actually managed to find the only place on earth arguably more devoted to Barack Obama.
  • (16) Alastair Campbell, who, as director of communications at Number 10, arguably faced similar unpopularity issues, insists that Kennedy remains unfazed.
  • (17) The right is very flexible on industrial action: in the 80s striking miners were characterised as violent and feckless, despite being unarmed against mounted police and arguably the opposite of feckless – battling to keep backbreaking jobs.
  • (18) Paterson’s contribution is to identify the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott , and the Canadian premier, Stephen Harper , who have arguably done more harm to the living planet than anyone else alive, as champions of environmental protection .
  • (19) He called on Lib Dem MPs, who he claimed had "arguably committed electoral fraud of a sort", to be lobbied as part of the drive to shift the political debate.
  • (20) However, the ONS survey does not include group personal pensions or stakeholder pensions, which many firms brought in as a replacement for their final salary arrangements, so arguably does not provide the complete picture.

Word


Definition:

  • (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
  • (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
  • (n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
  • (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
  • (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
  • (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
  • (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
  • (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
  • (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
  • (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
  • (6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.

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