amendable

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Recent Examples of amendable And for toddlers who aren’t always amendable to sitting down at the dinner table, anything that might help them get excited about mealtimes is going to be a win for parents, too. Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 May 2025 What this means is that a smart creditor will immediately seek to register the charging order as a sister-state order in a jurisdiction where the LLC is amendable to personal jurisdiction, i.e., where it is formed or conducting business. Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 Still, other areas that are highlighted on the map, but aren’t spoken about as much in the study, could also have been amendable to both groups. Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024 The contract became amendable in 2019, but the pandemic delayed negotiations until August 2021. Ted Reed, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024 But how amendable will Melanie be to accommodating this stranger who just forced his way onto her train? Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 22 July 2024 When asked about the deal on Thursday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby declined to say if the president wanted to stop it outright or would be amendable to changes in its structure. Josh Boak, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024 Negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement between the union and the airline began in November 2014 and was amendable in December 2019, according to a news release from the union. Maraya King, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2024 When contracts become amendable at airlines, there’s a legal obligation to begin negotiations. Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amendable
Adjective
  • Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.
    Vincent Blocker, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.
    WSJ, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
Adjective
  • Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
  • If hazards stop being rare, stop being predictable, and/or produce damages that aren’t easily reparable (or suggest that a building should not be rebuilt in that location), the existing market structures for both property insurance and property more broadly won’t work.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
Adjective
  • The device attaches to the phone holder, is reversible, and draws power from the gimbal via pogo pin connectors.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • The quilt—available in either full/queen or king/California king—is reversible, with one white side with blue flowers and one bright blue side with white flowers.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2025

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“Amendable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amendable. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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