How to Use open to debate in a Sentence

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• Quite what lies at the root of that respect is open to debate.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• Whether Schultz or Mike Gesicki is the top free agent is open to debate.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2022
• As for the decision to start Civale, that’s open to debate.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2022
• The technology to achieve the feat is still open to debate.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
• Like much about the Incas, their origins are open to debate.
  — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2022
• Which of the two means will be successful is equally open to debate.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Whether or not Trump has good reason, as Cheeseman puts it, to shut down TikTok is open to debate.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 8 Aug. 2020
• Whether that notion has been effective or not is open to debate.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• What is not open to debate is the simple fact that printing money does not, by itself, create wealth.
  — Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Like all big-bucket categories, what is and isn’t a disaster movie is open to debate.
  — Harry Guinness, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2023
• That last point is open to debate, given the lurching nature of Mr. Johnson’s response to the pandemic.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 July 2021
• Granted, this is open to debate, but the Bruins, even in the hours following their most recent loss, have the most identifiable roster among the town’s four major sports.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
• Whether Yuan himself or the prospect of access to a cyclotron had a greater influence on Wu's transfer decision remains open to debate!
  — Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• How much the crypto explosion has helped Rockdale’s economy is open to debate.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• Just how popular social audio will become is still open to debate.
  — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Before the Russia-Ukraine War conflict, those statues that never left became a fixture of an old world, open to debate and even respectful sport.
  — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• That’s likely due to changing levels of methane, a warming greenhouse gas, Mitri says, adding that the exact cause of cooling and warming on Titan is open to debate.
  — Erica Naone, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• And while the impact of the pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin demonstrations remains open to debate, what is clear is that Western leaders are feeling emboldened to move more forcefully.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022
• Whether this reflects a sound assessment of Russian intentions or merely a projection of U.S. values is open to debate.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Most people would agree that a statement that someone or something is racist or sexist is, in many cases, open to debate—there is no litmus test for discrimination.
  — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• How much this elucidates the music is open to debate, but Sibelius proceeds from a somber cello solo (exquisitely played by Christopher Adkins) through contrasts of busy sonic swirls and eddies and great brassy slabs of sound.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Others disagree about that, but Nelson hardly took a breath and barely touched his French toast while making his case that what Diablo Canyon safely produces is clean, reliable and cheap (the last point is open to debate).
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Or is is because Hansen has engaged in subjective conversations about future scenarios, which are very much open to debate?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
• But an interpolation, in which a musical or lyrical element of one song is replayed in a different song, is often more open to debate.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 June 2022
• What comprises the Mid-Atlantic region can be open to debate, but perhaps the most geographically correct way of thinking about it is as the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
• From the decades of disruption, the Rhine region received a major economic boost (as well as a reduction in malaria—although whether that was due to Rhine engineering or other factors is open to debate).
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• Just how far employers must go is open to debate – but the Supreme Court has repeatedly signaled an interest in expanding religious rights, not limiting them.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Just how much influence amicus briefs have at the Supreme Court has long been open to debate, particularly when groups are weighing in on questions that implicate them indirectly.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
• Whether this makes the movie an innately feminist work or, as some detractors have claimed, a superficial girlboss narrative is certainly open to debate.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• With a pro-republic Labor Party government in power, Australia’s constitutional ties to the British monarchy will again be open to debate for the first time since change was rejected in a 1999 referendum.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024