knowable

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Recent Examples of knowable But whatever history is ultimately knowable, certain falsehoods and myths can be dispelled. Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025 But there's more intrigue and more mystery, because nothing's totally knowable and solved. Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 30 May 2025 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 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. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for knowable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
  • At a moment when many people’s thoughts and feelings about antisemitism are intense without necessarily being intelligible to others, and when accusations of antisemitism are tremendously forceful, Mazower’s book makes an immense contribution.
    Book Marks September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The story is actually intelligible this time around, but while the mecha designs look wonderful, the characters definitely needed more work.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The idea is to make worker feedback less intimidating for companies by turning it into easily comprehensible data and action items.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In the lab, Goldie’s thoughts circled and surrounded the minutiae of analysis and computation, sorted microscopic comparisons, developed overviews that laid out sequences and processes logically and accurately in theories not otherwise comprehensible.
    Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Or perhaps its author was just exhausted, which would be entirely understandable.
    Liz Schubauer, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Almeida believes that is understandable.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Apple and OpenAI may move to dismiss, arguing the complaint fails to plead a coherent market, a cognizable agreement to restrain trade, or non-speculative consumer harm.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • In that vacuum, religious zealots and cults manifest, nihilism thrives, and families are torn apart.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This is made manifest through four sections (two comprising the majority of the book).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Seahawks put the Bucs in obvious situations, then offered little resistance.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • One obvious strategy to try to tackle the staffing problems is to close more prisons, and this year’s state budget authorized Governor Hochul to close up to three more.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Lead researchers on the project concluded that there was no unambiguous discovery of life by the Viking landers, but it cannot be completely ruled out.
    Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is the complete opposite of most programming languages, where syntax typically tries to be explicit and unambiguous.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mayo said midcap banks as a category are more digestible for mergers.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Trust that what’s meant for you won’t require you to shrink yourself down to a digestible size.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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