knowable

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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. 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 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 See All Example Sentences for knowable
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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sparse autoencoders, for instance, can help simplify neural network activations into comprehensible parts.
    Rishabh Sambare, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • Unclear plan and purpose These moves have left many Americans feeling as though the White House has no comprehensible strategy.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That deep experience was manifest in Wednesday’s performance.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • Nowhere is that more obvious or more urgent than in education.
    Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Mountains are always there, but another form of turbulence can seemingly appear from nowhere, with no obvious visual cues to warn pilots.
    Renée Rigdon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Florida law granting access to such records is unambiguous, and the state’s courts are likely to find in favor of owners and against associations that fail to provide reasonable access.
    Laura Manning-Hudson, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Advertisement The history, however, is unambiguous: birthright citizenship was a necessary solution to the most fundamental question in U.S. history—who is included in the political community.
    Time, Time, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • That allowed the producers to find the show’s voice and find its stories in easily digestible bites.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Too much food too quickly can overwhelm the dormant digestive system, so start your eating window with smaller portions of easily digestible foods that are not gas-producing (beans, lentils, broccoli, etc.) and avoid artificial sweeteners.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 19 Aug. 2025.

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