as in repairable
capable of being corrected
a racehorse with some minor, correctable faults
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Recent Examples of correctable
All the mistakes are correctable.
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Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for correctable
Adjective
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The result is a home that can withstand both earthquakes and high winds, while remaining low-cost and easily repairable.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Pixel 4 is now repairable, either by you via repair kits or by sending it to Google.—
Brent Rose,
Outside,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.—
Phillips Payson O’Brien,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2025
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Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.—
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.—
Vincent Blocker,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2023
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Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
26 Apr. 2022
Adjective
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Objects look wider than empty spaces of the same size, and the Hubble Tension may be resolvable if the Milky Way is in a local void.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The plumber can check if there are fixable issues with the switch, check valve, and drainage pipe.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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Yes, yes, some of those mistakes are fixable.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Ex situ analyses and density functional theory simulations revealed that the battery operates via a reversible Zn²⁺/H⁺ co-insertion mechanism, enabling a five-electron transfer process for high redox activity.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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The flip side of this reversible quilt features a solid color with modern quilted stitching.—
Sheri Kaz,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Their contract had also become amendable on Dec. 31, 2018.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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And for toddlers who aren’t always amendable to sitting down at the dinner table, anything that might help them get excited about mealtimes is going to be a win for parents, too.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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This level of insight turns adoption from a black box into a measurable, controllable and continuously improvable lever for business value.—
Khadim Batti,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Correctable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correctable. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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