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Recent Examples of Synonyms for controllable
Adjective
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These challenges are manageable, but only with eyes wide open.—
Jennifer Wakefield,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025 -
An army is much less manageable than one person, and soon the maze will be overrun with dwarfish culture and depleted of resources.—
Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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Until recently, their goal has been to attack the more tractable pure delivery market with a custom delivery robot about half the size of traditional cars.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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These prove out Fielder’s intuition that aviation safety depends on candid cockpit conversation, a particularly high-stakes—and, crucially, perhaps tractable—example of Fielder’s over-all preoccupation with the fear and anxiety that inhibits genuine communication.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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Resilience is a teachable, measurable and scalable capability.—
Maureen Metcalf,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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Have a trial or probationary period, and remember that personality fit is important, but often, teachable skills will benefit your business more.—
Peter Boolkah,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Pricing data so far hasn’t revealed a big impact from tariffs, and a few Fed officials have said that’s evidence that inflation is tame enough to justify rate cuts.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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That includes tame interest rates and a pickup in oil prices.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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As with any popular interior design style from this time, some people took the look a bit too far, and spaces started to look a little too docile and frilly.—
Tessa Cooper,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 July 2025
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Liberation Weekend aims to build on the ambitions of 2020s showcases like New Haven’s T4T Fest while avoiding the docile pleasantries of larger organizations beholden to corporate and political donors.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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These employers often require hundreds of workers and are prepared to retain them long-term, which sets the foundation for highly successful and legally compliant placements.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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The president wants exactly the reverse from California, and seems most compliant with California desires when they are addressed to him with abject obsequiousness.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Life will be much easier for the AI maker by forcing the AI to be fully obedient.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Tatras are a large livestock guardian breed originating from the Tatra Mountains in Poland, while golden retrievers are a popular choice as family pets due to their gentle and obedient nature.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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But not all applications may be amenable to such a requirement.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
9 July 2025
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From the sounds of it, the scenarios to watch are either a needle-moving free agent or a trade with a team that is successful in free agency and needs to move a player off the roster for cap reasons, becoming more amenable to taking back futures.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
29 June 2025
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“Controllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/controllable. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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