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Recent Examples of knowable
Our own inner cosmos of intentions, beliefs, and dreams is knowable only to ourselves.
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Conor Feehly,
Big Think,
10 Mar. 2026
Looksmaxxers hold a similarly superficial view of beauty as a kind of rigid mathematics with a single, knowable solution.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
The work is never entirely knowable.
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James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
That’s not a knowable question (about turnover).
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Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
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Conor Feehly,
Big Think,
10 Mar. 2026
Looksmaxxers hold a similarly superficial view of beauty as a kind of rigid mathematics with a single, knowable solution.
—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
The work is never entirely knowable.
—
James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
That’s not a knowable question (about turnover).
—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for knowable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
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Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state.
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The Aztecs had just two Americans on their roster, so what Caligiuri heard on the sideline was a mix of Spanish, Serbian and heavily accented — and barely intelligible — English from players born in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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Suddenly, Marjane succumbing to sorrow became achingly comprehensible.
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Kids will get the messages that Plensa espouses as quickly as adults, but this work is an easy, comprehensible introduction to how artists work, using surprising materials in inventive ways to make viewers consider the world differently.
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That instinct is understandable.
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Meta’s plan to avoid the cash component is understandable, given that real-money betting is largely prohibited in some of its biggest markets, such as India, Indonesia, and Brazil.
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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.
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Even with Klayman not meeting the $30,000 threshold, Delgado could have recognized jurisdiction if Klayman stated a cognizable claim.
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In many cases, someone else did it first, someone else did it better, and the lack of graspable depth from the plot means the album lacks real stakes.
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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Look in the most obvious places first.
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In a sport where just one player can change lives and where a market like theirs should offer a manifest destiny, the team delivered, mostly, pain.
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That contrast was also manifest in the relative outcomes; the White House only belatedly announced deals for the sale of 200 Boeing jets and at least $17 billion of American agricultural products annually to China through 2028.
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Their work represents the oldest detection of plague outbreaks known to researchers, as well as the first unambiguous evidence that early and genetically different Yersinia pestis strains were deadly for humans.
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Taylor-Joy’s response was immediate and unambiguous.
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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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