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
Here are five ways to make that long-haul flight in economy more bearable.
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Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 4 Mar. 2025
Offering a tax incentive not even open to American citizens could make the $5 million price tag more bearable than the current cheaper EB-5 investor visa, which requires between $800,000 and $1 million in investment and fees charged by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
These picks can fit most laptops, plus books, water bottles, packed lunches, and whatever else makes your commute more bearable.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2025
This could make the group friendship and text chain more bearable.
—Eric Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bearable
Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 4 Mar. 2025
Offering a tax incentive not even open to American citizens could make the $5 million price tag more bearable than the current cheaper EB-5 investor visa, which requires between $800,000 and $1 million in investment and fees charged by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
These picks can fit most laptops, plus books, water bottles, packed lunches, and whatever else makes your commute more bearable.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2025
This could make the group friendship and text chain more bearable.
—Eric Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 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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Rising property insurance premiums have caused consternation in hurricane-and-flood-prone Florida, but The Villages sits comfortably away from the areas with the greatest potential for storm tidal flooding, so premiums remain tolerable.—
William P. Barrett,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Compared with the shocks of the COVID-19 lockdowns, a trade rupture with the United States would be a tolerable disruption.—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Bearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearable. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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