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Recent Examples of governable
Another, governable president would be looking to move that range down for his party by either changing the circumstances or the perception of them to the electorate.
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2026
Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for governable
Adjective
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The climate challenge is more nuanced and manageable than the agency once assumed.—
Steven Koonin,
Washington Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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That’s why some rocket builders opt to use hydrogen for the upper stages of launch vehicles, but make use of a more manageable fuel for a rocket’s first stage, which houses all the engines that give the initial burst of power off the launchpad.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Thanks to housing crises in big cities, many aspiring writers can’t afford rooms of their own, and contractions in the media industry have made writing as a profession less tractable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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Anybody can ask a new question, but to ask which questions at this point in time have both impact and are tractable is actually really hard.—
Jonathan Wosen,
STAT,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The researchers also found that the stage, although transient, is highly controllable.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Feb. 2026
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The most recent version [bottom] integrates hollow microinjector needles, allowing more precise and controllable drug delivery.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Translate seemed too tame a word.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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The once-fairly tame space instantly transformed into a full-fledged dance club as a crowd gathered the moment Williams and Tung stepped into the center.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Be teachable and engage in open-minded conversations.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Even widely praised qualities such as empathy or teamwork are often less about teachable techniques than about dispositional tendencies toward agreeableness and social attunement, which happen to pay off in contexts that demand collaboration and care.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
4 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Many public spaces within the Mountain House have ADA-compliant routes to enter, exit, and move around the house freely.—
Katie Mathews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Feb. 2026
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There are about 55 Jones Act-compliant oil tankers worldwide, compared with more than 7,000 oil tankers globally.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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New groups have sprouted, and protests have penetrated formerly docile suburbs.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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After implanting him with the device, a now docile Hank reveals that he's already released implanted people into the Wasteland — and that they've been given instructions.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The brain and the mind are trainable.—
Amanda Schupak,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Encourage teams to treat the AI as a trainable colleague who doesn’t complain doing dull and repetitive work, rather than a replacement.—
Paul Eremenko,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Governable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governable. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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