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Recent Examples of controllable
Digital ethics expert Davi Ottenheimer argued that the presentation evoked both blackface and the fantasy of a controllable Black servant.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
The agency blames its controllable losses in part to the six-day-per-week universal service obligation.
—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2026
All is controllable via a simple bidirectional wheel that resets the indications instantaneously and remains synchronized from 1900 through 2099.
—Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
The Bulls can’t reasonably expect to surpass the Memphis Grizzlies in these standings, which means the race with the Bucks is their only remaining controllable variable in the season.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Cut Spending to Protect Your Portfolio When markets plunge, one of the most immediate and controllable levers is spending.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2026
At the same time, shifts in the strategic environment reduced the utility of limited naval pressure as a controllable tool.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
The team also revealed that the resulting dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) fibers exhibit intrinsic softness, with an overall Young’s modulus of 37 MPa, enabling electrically controllable actuation modes with high freedom in bending, compression, and three-dimensional(3D) swirling motions.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
In reality, the reasons are usually much simpler and far more controllable.
—Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
The agency blames its controllable losses in part to the six-day-per-week universal service obligation.
—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2026
All is controllable via a simple bidirectional wheel that resets the indications instantaneously and remains synchronized from 1900 through 2099.
—Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
The Bulls can’t reasonably expect to surpass the Memphis Grizzlies in these standings, which means the race with the Bucks is their only remaining controllable variable in the season.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Cut Spending to Protect Your Portfolio When markets plunge, one of the most immediate and controllable levers is spending.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2026
At the same time, shifts in the strategic environment reduced the utility of limited naval pressure as a controllable tool.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
The team also revealed that the resulting dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) fibers exhibit intrinsic softness, with an overall Young’s modulus of 37 MPa, enabling electrically controllable actuation modes with high freedom in bending, compression, and three-dimensional(3D) swirling motions.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
In reality, the reasons are usually much simpler and far more controllable.
—Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for controllable
Adjective
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But Bubic settled in and kept the deficit manageable while relying on his offense to chip away at the plate.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2026
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Romvari is just getting started in her career, while still determined to keep her expectations manageable — her gaze fixated squarely on creating and improving.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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At the top will be the most computationally intensive methods—prohibitively expensive on classical computers but tractable on quantum computers.—
Chi Chen,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Mar. 2026
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Thanks to housing crises in big cities, many aspiring writers can’t afford rooms of their own, and contractions in the media industry have made writing as a profession less tractable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Colleagues have praised not only his command of physiology but also his ability to make his reasoning legible—to turn clinical uncertainty into something teachable.—
Alexandra Sifferlin,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2026
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If, instead, rationality is viewed as adaptive and teachable, policy should focus on strengthening people’s capacity to learn, adapt and decide for themselves.—
Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But with consistent training, that decline is far less pronounced, and in your 40s, aerobic capacity is still highly trainable.—
Jim Diehl CSCS,
Outside,
29 Mar. 2026
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The brain and the mind are trainable.—
Amanda Schupak,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The original Universal Monster movies are also quite tame by today’s standards, meaning that most of us have spent our lives seeing these monsters as family-friendly Halloween characters, not something to truly fear.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
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Raw garlic scapes are tamer than raw garlic cloves yet offer plenty of fresh, oniony, herbaceous flavor.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Sanjar and other biologists don gloves and gingerly place a somewhat docile possum in a harness normally used by dog groomers when trimming nails.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
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Leave some patches of empty ground for docile, ground-dwelling bees that are important pollinators.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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New and current producers can also find resources on the DCC website, which helps navigate applying for a license, remaining compliant, understanding cannabis labor laws and more.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Closures may impact some handicapped parking spaces, but staff will designate an equal number of temporary ADA-compliant spaces for use, officials said.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Just think of all those vacant Madonnas, structurally perfect compositions, and obedient daydreams of antiquity.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Always obedient, Agnes happily welcomes Daisy despite Shu’s warnings.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Controllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/controllable. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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