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Recent Examples of bearable Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explores how to make work not just bearable, but meaningful. Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025 After much hesitation from the Jedi master to take on another pupil after Ben, Luke agrees to train Rey in the ways of the Force...at least while their growing tensions remain bearable. Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025 From space-saving gadgets to cozy layers that make long flights a little more bearable, these deals are too good to pass up. Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025 The doctors, nurses, administrators and soldiers found a way to invoke humor through practical jokes to make their mission abroad bearable. Rachel Flynn, People.com, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bearable
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Adjective
  • Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Many would consider this a tolerable scenario; some, an attractive one.
    Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
  • The tolerable upper limit (UL) for zinc is 40 mg daily for males and females 19 years and older.
    Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025

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“Bearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearable. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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