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Adjective
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Pruning peppers in fall not only encourages these plants to focus their energy on ripening any remaining fruit before frost arrives but also keeps them at a more manageable size to cover them as needed.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2025 -
Ensure a simple-enough menu stays manageable with a to-do list so you’re not waylaid by days-long side quests.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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Tilly, and the technologies that will follow her, promise something cleaner, faster, cheaper and more controllable — but infinitely less relatable.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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When exposed to a magnetic field, the film acts like an actuator, contracting, bending, or folding the origami, effectively turning it into a tiny, controllable robot.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Doctors sent Jake Latimer home after he was bitten by a banded sea krait, a docile but highly venomous snake.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Oct. 2025
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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
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A lot of these products pack a larger caffeine punch, so if that concerns you then Naked Protein’s comparatively tame 95mg might be more your speed.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Oct. 2025
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While the colorway itself is relatively tame, the hundreds of rhinestone crystals that cover the traditionally leather upper are anything but.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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Someone who is coachable and trainable.—
Rob Lancit,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Hulk wasn’t very compliant.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Accessibility and Sustainability Colony Club has one ADA-compliant guest room.—
Kate Van Dyke,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Handleable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handleable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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