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• While the center’s legacy is still under debate, the urgent question now is where the 400 people a day who use it will go.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Dec. 2022
• The new drugs’ economic effects on the health system are under debate.
  — Brittany Trang and Elaine Chen, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
• Michigan — the southern half of it anyway — is still under an air quality alert, but for how long is under debate.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• That Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein’s No. 2 is not under debate.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• Still, a new stimulus bill — which has been under debate in Washington for months and was approved by the Senate on Monday — has played prominently in the race so far.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• Ahead of the new school year, mandates are under debate Until vaccines can be administered to younger kids, some officials are hoping that masks will help decrease the spread of the virus.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• The question still under debate by employers and employees is what exactly does a return to work look like?
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• While the exact relationship between wages and inflation remains under debate, economists are much clearer on how raising interest rates puts people out of work.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2022
• The bill, under debate in the Ukrainian Parliament, could be politically unpopular with the country’s war-weary citizenry.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The legislation under debate in the Senate also includes several bills Portman was previously trying to pass.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
• As a result, new laws enacted or still under debate appear more punitive, largely washing away or diluting many of the reforms enacted after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
  — John D. Harden, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• The latest action has been under debate within the administration for an extended period.
  — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2021
• At a time when collective social and economic narratives are under debate around the world, lagom raises quintessential questions about human nature and society.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
• Nirenberg said some communities historically have been hard to count, particularly in major cities, and that will remain under debate.
  — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
• Today, it’s estimated that 30 million of them live among us — enough to threaten native environments such as Catalina Island, where a controversial eradication plan is under debate.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• The legislation was then inserted into the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill, which is under debate.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024