as in resolvable
capable of having the reason for or cause of determined
I'm sure that the mystery of what happened to the missing pizza is solvable
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Recent Examples of solvable
Analysts are mixed as to whether Target’s issues are easily solvable or if drastic changes are necessary to revive to the business.
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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Predicting depth charts can be perilous, but based on what’s been said throughout fall camp, this puzzle seems solvable with less than two weeks until the season opener.
—Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
The immediate emergency is solvable.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
But the water crisis is solvable.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Predicting depth charts can be perilous, but based on what’s been said throughout fall camp, this puzzle seems solvable with less than two weeks until the season opener.
—Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
The immediate emergency is solvable.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
But the water crisis is solvable.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for solvable
Adjective
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Objects look wider than empty spaces of the same size, and the Hubble Tension may be resolvable if the Milky Way is in a local void.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Ratner notes that acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill has suggested breaking up the standard measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots, which Ratner says is neither feasible nor is it backed by data.—
Maria Godoy,
NPR,
12 Oct. 2025
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Della Valle noted that current law requesting companies to hit the third tier of the sub-supplying chain is hardly feasible.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Luckily our liver is ready for this and in two phases makes a toxic substance less harmful and then converts it to a water soluble form for excretion.—
Sheah Rarback,
Miami Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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On-demand male contraception via acute inhibition of soluble adenylyl cyclase.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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As an attendance of 6,473 was announced over the stadium intercoms, the answers to those questions felt, if not yet answerable, more positive than negative, a shade Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Co-ops are, by comparison, free agents, answerable to their customers who double mostly as their regulators.—
Llewellyn King,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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But beginning in the 1970s, scientists started identifying some puzzles surrounding the Big Bang, noting several properties of the Universe that weren’t explainable within the context of these two notions simultaneously.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
24 Sep. 2025
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But, as is true for most of the things that happen in Black Rabbit, there’s no easy way to explain something that appears, well, easily explainable on the surface.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Solvable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solvable. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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