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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 -
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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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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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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Extra points go to this docile, non-venomous spider that eats mosquitoes, gnats and flies.—
Sheryl DeVore,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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New groups have sprouted, and protests have penetrated formerly docile suburbs.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The initial illness was tame, seemingly inconsequential.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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Luge seems tamer than skeleton, sort of—at least lugers slide feet first—except that an athlete actually did die in a crash during a training run just before the start of the Vancouver Olympics.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
22 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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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
Adjective
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Bonta’s office first sued Huntington Beach in 2023 for violating state law by refusing to submit a compliant housing element, which maps out where and how new housing — including affordable housing — can be built.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Pixel 10 has a smaller 4,970mAh battery that charges at up to 30W via wire and 15W wirelessly using Qi2-compliant chargers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Handleable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handleable. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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