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as in navigable
capable of being traveled on
after the snowstorm ends, the roads might not be passable for the morning ride to school
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as in penetrable
capable of being passed into or through
the jungle is not passable without a machete
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as in decent
of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards
that's a passable paper
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as in satisfactory
of average to below average quality
the actor's Scottish accent is passable at best
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Recent Examples of passable
Still, his faceoff win rate is above 60 percent, and his defensive metrics are passable.
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Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Even White — who has improved his defense to passable status — isn’t always the best pairing with Giddey due to the resulting lack of defensive resistance at the perimeter.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
In ideal conditions, the road is technically passable for most vehicles, but high clearance and four-wheel drive are strongly recommended.
—Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
Once roads became passable, Kerrville school bus drivers loaded up hundreds of campers and shuttled them toward home.
—The Editors, Outside, 15 Dec. 2025
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Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Even White — who has improved his defense to passable status — isn’t always the best pairing with Giddey due to the resulting lack of defensive resistance at the perimeter.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
In ideal conditions, the road is technically passable for most vehicles, but high clearance and four-wheel drive are strongly recommended.
—Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
Once roads became passable, Kerrville school bus drivers loaded up hundreds of campers and shuttled them toward home.
—The Editors, Outside, 15 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for passable
Adjective
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From Pittsburgh, about 250 trail miles and 700 feet above Baltimore’s Chesapeake Bay, the Ohio River was navigable downstream all the way to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
4 Jan. 2026
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How to Get Around The old town of Villefranche-sur-Mer, with its concentration of visitor attractions and restaurants, is easy to walk around—in fact, some streets are only navigable on foot.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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By breaking actives down into smaller molecules, the fermentation process makes the ingredient more bioavailable and penetrable.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
23 Sep. 2025
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Bouncing back seven years after the barely penetrable Sunset, the Hungarian director’s new film takes its time to kick in but is a uniquely personal coming-of-age drama.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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For us, some data is showing the track of this clipper low just to our south, with places like Morgantown seeing some decent snowfall.—
Ron Smiley,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Things picked up significantly in the second season, and by the end of the third and final season, this became a decent grimy, violent, future fantasy show.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Jan. 2026
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Air quality is satisfactory and air pollution poses little or no risk.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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And yet no analytical framework ever yields a fully satisfactory result.—
Amir Ahmadi Arian,
The Dial,
15 Jan. 2026
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Moisture that seeps into porous materials like fabrics, wicker, and wood freezes and expands, causing cracking and splitting.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
27 Jan. 2026
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Known for their exceptional thermal insulation, aerogels predominantly consist of air trapped within a porous solid matrix.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Versions offered by government officials and the family’s attorney and neighbors offer contradictory versions of whether the parents were given adequate opportunity to leave the child with someone else.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Twin Cities,
25 Jan. 2026
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These stand out amid the otherwise adequate effects, which simply get the spurting, spewing job done.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Yes, their defense is elite, but Jarett Stidham has been a mediocre quarterback at best and hasn’t played in years.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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Some higher-end home espresso grinders are calibrated specifically for espresso and produce mediocre results for pour-over or French press.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Jan. 2026
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If your home naturally receives plenty of sun, your indoor plants may be perfectly fine.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Jan. 2026
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If your oven doesn’t have a lot of stains and grease buildup, monthly cleaning should be fine.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Passable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passable. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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