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
These picks can fit most laptops, plus books, water bottles, packed lunches, and whatever else makes your commute more bearable.
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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
Byrne said such a move may be more bearable for consumers because it's assumed the surcharge is a temporary increase.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025
New prisons and jails should consider design principles that would make living in them, however temporarily, as bearable and undisruptive as possible by focusing on creating rehabilitative conditions.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
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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
Byrne said such a move may be more bearable for consumers because it's assumed the surcharge is a temporary increase.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025
New prisons and jails should consider design principles that would make living in them, however temporarily, as bearable and undisruptive as possible by focusing on creating rehabilitative conditions.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bearable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearable
Adjective
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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
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His comments come as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman brokered a meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week in Riyadh to devise an endurable end to the war in Ukraine.—
David Catanese,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Food and Nutrition Board has not established a tolerable upper limit (TUL) for folate in foods, as there have not been reports of adverse events from excess folate.1 A TUL refers to the highest daily amount of a nutrient that can be safely consumed by a healthy individual.—
Jennifer Lefton, MS, RD/N, CNSC, FAND,
Verywell Health,
7 Apr. 2025
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But there are some breeds known for being more tolerable for people with allergies.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Bearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearable. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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