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Recent Examples of knowable
Not even changes in entropy are knowable.
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Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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
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
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Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
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The vocals come through loud and clear, with harmonies easily intelligible, thanks to the UBoom's multi-driver design.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Nearby conversations are clear enough as to be comprehensible.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 May 2025
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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
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 reasons for the far right’s rise are manifest in his hometown of Niedertreba.—
Lenora Chu,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 Dec. 2024
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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
Adjective
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The lesson is obvious for investors: always consider control systems.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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That was all too obvious within minutes of his final home game of the season coming to an end on Friday night.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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In a bombing campaign, for example, the source is usually unambiguous and the result immediate and often visually spectacular.—
Boyd van Dijk,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Apr. 2025
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The order—responding to an emergency request to prevent the immediate removal of Venezuelan migrants—was gratifyingly unambiguous.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Instructors from Merrill Lynch broke down complex financial concepts into digestible lessons on budgeting, credit scores, and wealth building.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
11 May 2025
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People engage more in content that is quick and easily digestible.—
Adrian Falk,
Forbes.com,
22 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 21 May. 2025.
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