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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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Their conflicts are universal and comprehensible but very specific, very much of the place where the characters live.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
25 June 2025
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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
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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Untouched and undiscovered Tulum is not, but its magnetism is still manifest in its profound natural beauty, immense history, and pristine beaches scientifically proven to be the whitest in the world.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
19 July 2025
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That deep experience was manifest in Wednesday’s performance.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
17 July 2025
Adjective
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And then there are the descriptions of the additional terms, which may not be obvious.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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But a sharp turn straight into country seems like far too obvious a path for a singer-songwriter who has quietly done her own thing.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Though Osbourne’s recollections of the matter changed frequently, this fact remains unambiguous.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
23 July 2025
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Among the first of its type, Damiano Damiani’s A Bullet for the General mixes rousing action with a story of betrayal and political assassination that ends with an unambiguous call for the underclass to take up arms.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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Clarity is about connecting the dots in easily digestible ways.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Everything uploads to the Oura app, where it’s presented in a clear, digestible format.—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
8 July 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 26 Jul. 2025.
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