amendable

Definition of amendablenext

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Recent Examples of amendable Delta's contract with its pilots becomes amendable at the end of the year, and the airline and its pilot group are in active talks about the next contract, according to USA TODAY. Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 Delta’s contract with its pilots becomes amendable Dec. 31, and the airline and its pilot group are in active talks about the next contract. Zach Wichter, USA Today, 5 May 2026 These situations are amendable to creditors claiming that the structure is nothing more than the client's alter ego, which is why creditors love to see them. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2026 The resolution is amendable, which means Senate Democrats may attempt to modify it by broadening its restrictions on Trump’s power to include the deployment of troops to Greenland, Cuba or Colombia. Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amendable
Adjective
  • Imagine what could happen if that changed—if leadership was treated as measurable, improvable and ultimately accountable to the same standards as any financial metric.
    Debon Lewis, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • But one of the challenges here is that some of these crises are not immediately resolvable.
    NBC news, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The Coordinated Set Identification Service (CSIS) allows two earbuds—or two hearing aids—to be discovered and managed as a coordinated set rather than independently, with resolvable identifiers and set‑level locks.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The weekend ended with an entertaining display of the sort of effort that’s been absent for so long from the annual exhibition, and while these two things aren’t necessarily related, Sunday’s showcase suggests that even the league’s seemingly most intractable flaws might be remediable.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Right now the 20-point plan is in effect halted while Trump’s deputies make efforts to determine which of its deficiencies are remediable.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • All of that should be correctable.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Still, some states consider driving with only one headlight a correctable violation, meaning police officers will only give a fix-it ticket.
    Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The good news is that owner dependency is entirely fixable.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • In their telling in 1982, the broken window wasn’t merely a small, fixable problem but a cue that the block in question had no steward, that the neighborhood had no guardian, that ordinary obligations of civility were no longer in play.
    Elizabeth Glazer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
  • Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • When getting a product repaired becomes almost as expensive as buying a new one, many consumers will choose to buy and throw repairable items away.
    Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • When getting a product repaired becomes almost as expensive as buying a new one, many consumers will choose to buy and throw repairable items away.
    Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
Adjective
  • For example, Accor Live Limitless points are now redeemable on the Orient Express Corinthian.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2026
  • The drafters concentrated on the coin, on whether a dollar token is genuinely worth a dollar and genuinely redeemable.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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“Amendable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amendable. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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