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Recent Examples of knowable
Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
Test-time compute is so successful for quantitative problems because all verifiers hinge on the existence of a knowable, correct answer (or at least an objective basis for comparing two options), Bertsch says.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 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
The dead are less knowable than the living, perhaps, but easier to pin down.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
Test-time compute is so successful for quantitative problems because all verifiers hinge on the existence of a knowable, correct answer (or at least an objective basis for comparing two options), Bertsch says.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 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
The dead are less knowable than the living, perhaps, but easier to pin down.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
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My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 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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An example would be upstream CX changes that help eliminate downstream, cost-inflating customer inquiries (e.g., better product assembly instructions, clearer and more comprehensible invoices, more seamless product return procedures, and even just better expectation-setting at point-of-sale).—
Jon Picoult,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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For patients to benefit fully from AI, there must be clear and comprehensible explanations of how these systems work and how they are evaluated.—
Rob El Kareh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 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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The truth of that is likewise manifest in the tribunal itself, a supposedly impartial institution that never attempts to bring U.S. leaders to trial for acts the whole world witnesses.—
Lidija Haas,
Harper's Magazine,
3 Mar. 2025
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But give a motorcycle an electric powertrain, which a growing number now offer, and new possibilities become manifest.—
William Roberson,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Still, Strider was frustrated for obvious reasons and searching for answers.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Hague lamented the rush to reach a deal in the absence of any obvious pressure on Russia but with an intense focus on obtaining for the U.S. the mineral wealth of Ukraine.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Reporting indicates that Iran’s objectives in these talks are unambiguous.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Apr. 2025
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His message was unambiguous: AI should augment, not replace, the scientific process.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The digestible nature of her content is not to be remiss.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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One study showed that digestible starch increased glucose levels more than resistant starch.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
15 Apr. 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 1 May. 2025.
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