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Recent Examples of bearable For private individuals, the inflated costs are inconvenient but bearable. Maria Williams, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025 When a direct conversation isn’t an option (or your preference), shifting your mindset can subtly make any interactions with your friend, and maybe even her partner, a little more bearable. Miriam Kirmayer, SELF, 2 Sep. 2025 The fabric’s breathability made even the sunniest afternoons far more bearable. Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 15 Aug. 2025 These hungry and displaced people will become the climate refugees looking to migrate to areas where the climate is still bearable. Big Think, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bearable
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Adjective
  • That's not a just, endurable peace.
    NBC news, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Moreover, within wider patriarchal systems that afford few women, regardless of marital status, economic and social security, polygyny may not just be a tolerable choice but in some contexts a preferred arrangement with tangible benefits for both genders.
    David W. Lawson, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But Gault always knew there’d be food on the table and heat making winter nights tolerable.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Bearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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