subject of debate

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debate
noun
uk /dɪˈbeɪt/ us /dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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Examples of subject of debate

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The theory has long been a subjectofdebate.
The in-uence of prenatal diagnosis on the peri- and postnatal management and outcome is still the subjectofdebate.
They have been the subjectofdebate in recent years.
However, the slipperiness and instability of such oppositions has also, and rightly, been the subjectofdebate.
What early molecular biologists meant by "information," however, has been the subjectofdebate.
However, this interpretation lately has been a subjectofdebate.
Here we are at the door of a great mystery, which has long been the subjectofdebate in philosophy.
Whether this is possible, in principle, is likely to be the subjectofdebate for some time.
While the biological relationship of lactation to ovulation is generally understood, the specific mechanisms which control this process are still the subjectofdebate.
The nature of sound change has been the subjectofdebate among linguists for a long time.
This issue has been the subjectofdebate among analysts (6;7;34;60).
Capturing the right balance is a subjectofdebate.
One further question that is the subjectofdebate concerns the nature of the knowledge implied by the use of fillers.
This fact has been a subjectofdebate amongst feminist scholars seeking to use postmodernism as an effective framework for revisioning history from a gendered perspective.
The relation between these new results and the classical ones on the effect of surface tension is not yet clear and remains a subjectofdebate.
For this reason, it needs to be acknowledged that as a political notion, dignity is both a fitting subjectofdebate and deliberation and a beneficiary of public policy.
You can see, therefore, that this is no longer a subjectofdebate.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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