governable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governable
Adjective
  • These include identifying specific stressors, breaking large problems into manageable steps, and taking concrete action rather than ruminating on difficulties.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • By 2002, Casa de los Trucos had seven locations throughout South Florida and recently downsized to the original Calle Ocho location to make things more manageable for the Torres family.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Until recently, their goal has been to attack the more tractable pure delivery market with a custom delivery robot about half the size of traditional cars.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • These prove out Fielder’s intuition that aviation safety depends on candid cockpit conversation, a particularly high-stakes—and, crucially, perhaps tractable—example of Fielder’s over-all preoccupation with the fear and anxiety that inhibits genuine communication.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • The purpose of Bains’s lesson is to provide ways to focus on controllable things, to be positive, because en route to a scholarship, there are likely to be many setbacks.
    Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Patients placed their heads in a box illuminated by LED lights, which emitted a stable and controllable wavelength of light, and exposed their tongues.
    Eve Lu, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Inflation has ticked higher in recent readings, but has thus far remained tame enough for the market to brush off.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to more politically conservative news judgment, Dye was interested in tamer entertainment programming on the network.
    Time, Time, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That makes performance testable and the discipline teachable, both of which are the hallmarks of genuine management science.
    Pawan Anand, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • The existing administration building will be extended to accomodate for the education center, archival storage, ADA-compliant bathrooms and a catering kitchen for events like weddings.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Trump reportedly has been aiming to use the higher tariffs he’s enacted on non-compliant Mexican and Canadian goods to sway USMCA negotiations.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • However, because the animals' natural habitats share some overlap and both have similarly docile dispositions, zoos often group howlers and capybaras together.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This is a treat that many wee Britons had on Fridays to keep them docile all week.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Smaller dogs – those under 20 lb (9 kg) – were reported as more fearful, more aggressive, and more attention-seeking, but less trainable than larger dogs.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Someone who is coachable and trainable.
    Rob Lancit, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Governable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governable. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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