How to Use knowable in a Sentence
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That’s not a knowable question (about turnover).
—Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
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Whether that happens this season isn’t in the realm of knowable things.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
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None of these factors are knowable in advance.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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So try to talk the matter through — discussing the knowable facts, her fears and your hopes.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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Maybe female, maybe male, maybe both, maybe different from all that is known and knowable.
—Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
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The next step is preparing for the knowable and unknowable that lie ahead.
—Jose Luis Castro, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
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The dead are less knowable than the living, perhaps, but easier to pin down.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
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So, thanks to chaos theory our future is never knowable to us.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2013
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Yet the idea that the Caribbean is a place without a knowable past remains.
—Marlene Daut, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2021
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Moreover, the things that might have to be done to protect the country are not antecedently knowable.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
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If there are just a few gray men in a Davos boardroom pulling the levers, then the world is potentially knowable.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 12 June 2021
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The work is never entirely knowable.
—James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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The answers to many of these questions may not be knowable yet, but that doesn’t mean business leaders shouldn’t be thinking about them.
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
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Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026
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Time spent in this way felt both meaningful and knowable, oriented around a kind of specific future.
—Emily Beyda, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2021
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Science journalism, like science itself, does a lot of its labor on the edge of the knowable, in foggy realms.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
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Here are six questions — some knowable, others more opaque — that could shape how the Ravens proceed on Day 1.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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At the same time, technological progress has vastly expanded the realm of the knowable.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
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He is completely unfazed by the prospect of a world that is uncertain to its roots, of one that is incompletely knowable.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
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Others don’t allow novelty bets where there is a knowable answer, like what color headband a player may wear.
—Dante Chinni, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2023
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Our own inner cosmos of intentions, beliefs, and dreams is knowable only to ourselves.
—Conor Feehly, Big Think, 10 Mar. 2026
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Both artists dismantled the notion that our identities are either stable or knowable.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
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Today, few celebrities seem as knowable as Liza Minnelli.
—Matt Weinstock, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
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Push for cost transparency so that prices are knowable to patients ahead of time, thus allowing for informed decisions.
—Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2020
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The only thing that is knowable and important for you is your long-term objectives and your investment strategy to achieve them.
—Jonathan Dash, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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Every policy decision is a bet on a future that is at best only partially knowable.
—William A. Galston, WSJ, 18 May 2021
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Some seize on context (what is known or knowable, facts external to Vermeer) as a means of shrinking the blank space surrounding his work.
—Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
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In both cases, human beings, writing with an ardor and an inspiration that indeed seem sacred, went to the edge of the knowable.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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For more than a year, when nearly nothing seemed knowable or controllable about the coronavirus, masks were the one thing people could turn to for some semblance of agency.
—Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
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But, at least in the show’s early going, the character is neither knowable nor possessed of the tingly charge of unknowability.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
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