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Recent Examples of clubbable Its top editors have tended to be tweedy, clubbable figures who slip between academia and the upper reaches of journalism. New York Times, 26 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clubbable
Adjective
  • There will be more incoming and outgoing transfers at Anfield before the start of the 2025/26 season, but Liverpool has clearly made the decision to strengthen from a position of power.
    Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • The rule in question, known as the Roadless Rule, was first issued by the outgoing Clinton administration in 2001.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jimmy Swaggart, a televangelist and gospel singer whose fall from grace in the late 1980s made national headlines, has died, according to a social media post published by his ministry.
    Bob Smietana, NPR, 1 July 2025
  • Kurt’s key takeaways Meta’s decision to turn chatbot prompts into social content has blurred the line between private and public in a way that catches many users off guard.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • And chefs and restaurateurs across America are responding with a new wave of steakhouses where the food is more creative and the atmosphere more convivial.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 14 June 2025
  • With a calendar full of live music and other nightly events, the resort provides convivial ways to relax after a day of travel.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • For some science, the discoveries will be limited by whatever the sky is gracious enough to give—a star must explode for the Rubin Observatory to spot a new supernova, for example.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • Miss Manners is certain that your heartfelt gratitude, in the form of a gracious and appreciative handwritten letter, will be thanks enough.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • John and his wife, Ann Fitzmaurice, who live in Oregon, were easygoing and gregarious—and also intimidatingly fit.
    Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, dry conditions caused both solitary and gregarious locusts to have smaller offspring than in dry conditions—and both these hatchlings from small and large eggs were found to have residual yolk within their guts after birth.
    Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • This is a guide that is both a friendly flower refresher course for the veteran gardener and a wonderful introduction to flowers for the novice.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 June 2025
  • A week filled with fun videos of puppies trying to master the stairs and a friendly doggy neighbor making his rounds brightened our social media timelines, but a few of our readers' pet videos and pictures stood out.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Not just the comfortable, companionable silences but the ones that carry weight.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Brad Lander, the city’s comptroller, rattled off racial disparities in net worth for New York families, sounding like a companionable guest on an economics podcast.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • The unnamed song Parker played at Nitsa was far clubbier and more beat-heavy.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2025
  • The rear Kitchen Table space boasts a clubbier vibe, which is likely why this bar draws long lines and impossibly stylish crowds upon opening and well into the night.
    Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 May 2025

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“Clubbable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clubbable. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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