as in available
capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose the historic wooden ship has been fully restored and is once again an operable seafaring vessel

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Recent Examples of operable Barshick said part of the plant is still operable and would continue producing coke, which is used in the steel-producing process. Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025 Authorities recovered a bottle of alcohol and two operable firearms with ammunition in a shoebox in the vehicle, according to court docs. Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025 China’s ‘Linglong One’ was the world’s first operable commercial SMR, with the second being in Russia. Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025 Now, a significant fraction of the world’s 447 operable power reactors are showing their age and shortcomings, and after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan seven years ago, nuclear energy is in a precarious position. IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018 See All Example Sentences for operable
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“Operable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operable. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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