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Recent Examples of knowable
But the details surrounding the characters of DOOM, their motivations, and their actions are intentionally shorn away, creating the sense that this is a work guided by an inner logic knowable only to the performers themselves.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025
This is particularly important because much strategic planning and subsequent implementation lacks deliberation and doesn’t do a good job of addressing knowable risks, Conchie notes.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Not even changes in entropy are knowable.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025
This is particularly important because much strategic planning and subsequent implementation lacks deliberation and doesn’t do a good job of addressing knowable risks, Conchie notes.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Not even changes in entropy are knowable.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
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Many recipients become adept at interpreting the electrodes’ signals as intelligible sounds, especially if the implantation is done in infancy, but others struggle.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Clear, intelligible, physical consequences for success or failure in combat are crucial to building effective battle sequences, and Wheel comfortably passes that test this week.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Election officials, civil society groups and researchers can teach how audits work, host open-source verification demonstrations and ensure that high-tech electoral processes are comprehensible to voters.—
Bruce Schneier,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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In this quest, the reader often finds that through the understanding of the fictional, the real becomes more comprehensible.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Even with Klayman not meeting the $30,000 threshold, Delgado could have recognized jurisdiction if Klayman stated a cognizable claim.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 Sep. 2024
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Garbarino will be tasked with proving that the DHS leader has committed no less than high crimes and misdemeanors, a rather tall order given the total lack of evidence or even cognizable accusation that Mayorkas did anything improper, let alone remotely rising to this standard.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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That is the promise of the America-first agenda made manifest.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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The arbitrator's award is usually final since the courts may only review an arbitration award for some very serious error, sometimes known as manifest error, such as where the arbitration process in a particular case was corrupt or if the arbitrator exceeds his or her authority.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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Such an obvious way to exhibit his egotistical personality.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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But Cate mentioned obvious areas of interest such as housing, infrastructure, regulations, taxes and fees, trade and the overall cost of living.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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Safeguards of a very clear and unambiguous kind have to be programmed into them on an algorithmic basis and then continually supervised by humans to make sure the safeguards are working properly.—
David Szondy
June 28,
New Atlas,
28 June 2025
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Carroll’s lawyer countered that the case law was unambiguous.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Trust that what’s meant for you won’t require you to shrink yourself down to a digestible size.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 July 2025
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Crucially, Devonian extracts active compounds from the fiber of the plant, parts that are not digestible through normal eating.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
11 Feb. 2022
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Conditions in the state the planes left behind them were far less perspicuous.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
8 Feb. 2020
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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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