placable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for placable
Adjective
  • But Brown turns out to be an amiable businessman who identified a market inefficiency.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The amiable fire chief, who coos to a station dog named Vasia, is not alone in his pessimism.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Rage engulfs her in flame, while more agreeable calm restores her health.
    Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Unlike some other Chicago billionaires, he was known as agreeable, easygoing, and nonpolitical.
    Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Her eldest, Shou-hua (Liu Xie-ning), is a young, dutiful widow disinterested in remarriage.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Samantha is the dutiful 1960s suburban wife who is secretly a witch.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The university's student newspaper, The Villanovan, reported that the actor was handing out water and snacks (and obliging selfie requests) on that campus as well.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But on this day’s errand, in the New Pioneer produce aisle, Greenwell could be mistaken for someone a little more quotidian: an obliging, slightly flustered midwestern husband.
    Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Netanyahu appears convinced that his country’s security, along with his own political survival, depends on prolonging the military offensives and keeping both Gaza and Lebanon ungovernable, and therefore acquiescent.
    Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The young man’s comment was out of line, and my silence felt somehow acquiescent.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Lead actor Nathan Meister returns to the role of Henry Oldfield, the sheep-phobic son of a farmer who discovers his twisted older brother has been carrying out dangerous genetic experiences on his livestock, which transform them from docile vegetarians to ruthless, carnivorous killers.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
  • What maybe gets forgotten is that the Old Course was especially docile that week.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
Adjective
  • Anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.
    Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Of course, anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This should make the engine more tractable throughout the rev range, and that’s not taking into consideration an optional race exhaust setup—for track use only, nudge nudge—that bumps those figures up to 126 horsepower and 73 lb-ft of torque, while shaving another 10 pounds.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • LLMs are much less tractable, much less reliable black boxes.
    Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Placable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placable. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.

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