as in repairable
capable of being corrected
a racehorse with some minor, correctable faults
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Recent Examples of correctable
The team’s approach involved applying pulses at specific times to make counter-rotating errors consistent and correctable.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
For instance, some denials could stem from easily correctable errors if the parents knew of those errors, such as unreadable dental scans or wording from the orthodontist's office that didn't fully explain the medical necessity.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Dec. 2025
Of course, correctable isn’t the same as being corrected.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025
The former Sacramento Kings star guard added that a lot of the mistakes are correctable.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2025
All the mistakes are correctable.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
For instance, some denials could stem from easily correctable errors if the parents knew of those errors, such as unreadable dental scans or wording from the orthodontist's office that didn't fully explain the medical necessity.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Dec. 2025
Of course, correctable isn’t the same as being corrected.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025
The former Sacramento Kings star guard added that a lot of the mistakes are correctable.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2025
All the mistakes are correctable.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for correctable
Adjective
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Earlier this year, repairable computer maker Framework released a laptop that can support a RISC-V mainboard, bringing open-source architecture to the masses—or at least, developers and early adopters interested in straying from mainstream closed architectures.—
Gwendolyn Rak,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Dec. 2025
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These scientific advances have made devices more durable, repairable and recyclable.—
Suvrat Dhanorkar,
The Conversation,
10 Dec. 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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Are the contradictions and chaos of anyone’s life resolvable?—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The good news is that chocolate stains are fixable.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
15 Dec. 2025
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And its biggest drawback is easily fixable.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Dec. 2025
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Currently, the corridor has only a 12-mile reversible express lane.—
Greg Bluestein,
AJC.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Right now, 12 miles of I-75 in Henry and Clayton counties have reversible express lanes, but Kemp is proposing that the state build a lane in each direction.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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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 21 Jan. 2026.
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