extinguishable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extinguishable
Adjective
  • Our 22 Most Popular Bread Recipes Of All Time What Causes Mold On Bread? Mold thrives in warm, moist environments, and is commonly found on bread, cheese, produce, and other perishable items.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
  • McLagan traces this shift in reputation to the rise of slaughterhouses in England, which led to a greater availability of meat as well as an oversupply of perishable, hard-to-ship offal.
    Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But while companies may be expected to carry on indefinitely, business leaders are mortal.
    Gerry Spitzer, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Now, in the second episode, yet another woman seemed to be in mortal peril, and we’d once again been brought there in a slow-drip journey of madness by degrees.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The game takes place inside the layers of a hollow earth that's entirely destructible, thanks to Kong's raw strength.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The trailer showed off the game's fully destructible terrain, as DK was shown drilling into the ground, punching ahead to dig an underground tunnel, and even grabbing chunks of the earth below him to use as a weapon.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The surgeon is basically trying to make a very controlled and aesthetic scar—after all, a belly button is just an umbilical scar.
    Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The program's framework encourages a cooperative relationship with the IRS, allowing taxpayers to address discrepancies in a more controlled and predictable manner.
    Jessica Ledingham, J.D., LL.M., Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The acceptance of life’s transient nature is crucial for psychological well-being.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Read Next: Cougar Kittens Confirmed in Michigan for the First Time in a Century Wildlife experts believe that the lions seen in Oklahoma are mostly transient animals rather than full-time Sooner residents.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Simmons' initial reaction to the insult was a bit more restrained than his typical unfiltered comments.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This year, the prestigious but far more restrained perpetual calendar was the complication of choice.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Extinguishable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extinguishable. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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