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There are many reasons children and parents become alienated but you have chosen to concentrate solely upon the most controvertible and ignored the mundane albeit less sensational.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. M. Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it.

From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Fulton, Robert I.

In defining as above the position which Christ assumed, we have not entered into controvertible matter.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

He accordingly lays hold on the figures that set off his argument, and out of fancy premises he draws a solid conclusion which in no sense needed such controvertible data.

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely