as in endurable
capable of being endured
the pain from a sprained ankle is annoying but bearable
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Recent Examples of bearable
Even the final episode, where Molly enters the final stretch of her illness, is made bearable by a funny and warm performance by Paula Pell as a hospice nurse who pulls no verbal punches.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
This is a narrow margin but bearable for firms that are not overleveraged.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
But Schur knows a healthy dose of humor can make even our starkest worries bearable, even beautiful.
Hilarious and heartfelt.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 26 Feb. 2025
The hot tub helped make COVID-19 lockdowns more bearable and the water stored in the tub came in handy when Hurricane Helene cut off their water supply.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bearable
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
This is a narrow margin but bearable for firms that are not overleveraged.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
But Schur knows a healthy dose of humor can make even our starkest worries bearable, even beautiful.
Hilarious and heartfelt.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 26 Feb. 2025
The hot tub helped make COVID-19 lockdowns more bearable and the water stored in the tub came in handy when Hurricane Helene cut off their water supply.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bearable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearable
Adjective
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Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2025
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Those intimate pauses are more endurable than the film’s particularly unfunny comic centerpiece, in which the men venture into a nightclub to meet with a generic, coke-addled magnate.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Normally maybe that would be a manageable level of discrepancy, but the high tariffs raising the stakes to such a great extent, this long-standing, but usually tolerable, friction between customs valuation and transfer pricing might become a lot more significant.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Perhaps, if the Dodgers weren’t facing the prospect of a tight division race in this year’s talented National League West, such problems would have been more tolerable.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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“Bearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearable. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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