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Recent Examples of endurable Two people with divergent intuitions about what’s normal, or endurable, can end up tussling over the same territory. — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 15 July 2026 Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable. — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026 That's not a just, endurable peace. — NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025 Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable. — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025 Those intimate pauses are more endurable than the film’s particularly unfunny comic centerpiece, in which the men venture into a nightclub to meet with a generic, coke-addled magnate. — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025 His comments come as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman brokered a meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week in Riyadh to devise an endurable end to the war in Ukraine. — David Catanese, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025 But Russo understands the appeal, even the necessity, of those absurd affections that exceed all reason and make the travails of human life endurable. — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endurable
Adjective
  • Not everyone believed that the uptick in revenue would be sustainable.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Malaysia’s Moms Village Asia works with survivors of domestic violence to create sustainable corporate-gifting products, turning craft skills into income and a path back to independence.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • On the pod, Liao and Cheny come together — sometimes joined by their funniest friends — to debate the chaos of modern social behavior, how to be slightly better humans, and the art of being a tolerable person.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Just like there are only 12 notes in an octave, there are only so many words, concepts, and tolerable puns that beauty brands can come up with to identify and market their products.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The Backyard was packed two hours ahead of game time, and the overcast skies made for a more bearable pregame atmosphere.
    — AJC.com, AJC.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • To make their mission abroad bearable, the doctors, nurses, administrators and soldiers of the Korean War turned to humor, especially practical jokes.
    — Rachel Flynn, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Americans deserve the facts and can decide for themselves whether this looks like acceptable governance or something closer to self-dealing.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The film, built around interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence and military officers and soldiers, alleges the Israel Defense Forces set acceptable numbers of civilian deaths in Gaza in pursuit of Hamas targets.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Endurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endurable. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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