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Recent Examples of countable
However, the massive gold deposits in California inspired Congress to authorize a gold coin that was twice as big as a way to turn the Golden State’s riches into spendable and countable money.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
The shift removed a previous rule in which the maximum number of countable coaches was 11.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
Remove that amount from the countable revenue, and that substantial operating shortfall of $34.1 million becomes a $108.6 million crater.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
And since mathematicians already knew the family of countable graphs was Borel complete — that is, maximally complicated with respect to isomorphism — this meant the family of countable TFABs must also be Borel complete.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
The shift removed a previous rule in which the maximum number of countable coaches was 11.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
Remove that amount from the countable revenue, and that substantial operating shortfall of $34.1 million becomes a $108.6 million crater.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
And since mathematicians already knew the family of countable graphs was Borel complete — that is, maximally complicated with respect to isomorphism — this meant the family of countable TFABs must also be Borel complete.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countable
Adjective
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That leads to high temperatures, which create a glowing protostar due to the rapid (kinetic) motion of the internal gas particles, and eventually, after a few tens of millions of years, the core temperatures rise high enough (above 4 million K or so) that nuclear fusion of hydrogen begins.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has confirmed famine only a few times, most recently in 2025 in northern Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Daryanani also noted that Apple’s recently reported revenue and EPS (earnings per share) for the December quarter exceeded expectations, with the company delivering better-than-expected gross margin, driven by limited memory impact and robust Services growth.—
TipRanks,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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Currently, the electronic skin only covers limited surface areas.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Countable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countable. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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