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Recent Examples of knowable
The true story, in this case, is not known and not knowable.
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Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
The next part is the health aspect, making drugs that are clean and in knowable, understandable doses.
—Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
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
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Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
The next part is the health aspect, making drugs that are clean and in knowable, understandable doses.
—Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for knowable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
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The earliest Shaker songs, including ones attributed to Lee, have no intelligible language.—
Christian Goodwillie,
The Conversation,
22 Dec. 2025
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Art criticism is about writing, a fundamental way to process that mystery, aiming to discover something at least temporarily intelligible.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Mario Kart has to work as an entry point to gaming, something slow and comprehensible enough for your grandma to pick up.—
Ryan Gaur,
Rolling Stone,
19 Nov. 2025
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That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.—
Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What this means to you For everyday drivers, autonomous trucks raise understandable questions.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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In a time of school shootings, classroom bullying, culture wars over curricula, and faltering test scores, the impulse of some parents to take over their child’s education is understandable.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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At the most obvious level, of course.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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But her agent at GSE Worldwide represents all three of the other FP Movement tennis players, Sloane Stephens, Danielle Collins, and Sofia Kenin, which made for an easy and obvious transition.—
Jessica Schiffer,
Vogue,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The region’s North African influences (Tunisia lies just across the coast) are acutely manifest in its cuisine—San Vito Lo Capo hosts an annual couscous festival and chickpea fritters, pistachios, and spices such as saffron and cinnamon feature across many of its restaurants’ menus.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Jan. 2026
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This seems unexceptionable today, when even popular language columnists, such as the Times’ John McWhorter, are manifest descriptivists.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The Constitution is unambiguous on this point.—
Jon Duffy,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Thus far, astronomers have made the unambiguous detection of just one kilonova when, in 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its European partner, Virgo, detected the gravitational wave signal known as GW170817.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Since tracking over 60 metrics can get unwieldy, users will also get a more digestible Health Trajectory score that visualizes their healthspan — or how many years of good health a person can expect.—
Victoria Song,
The Verge,
5 Jan. 2026
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1996) Captain Planet made environmental concepts digestible.—
Alex Shoemaker,
Parents,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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