as in correctable
capable of being corrected
whether the harm your lying has done to our friendship is reparable or irreparable depends a lot on you
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Recent Examples of reparable
How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.
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Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
If hazards stop being rare, stop being predictable, and/or produce damages that aren’t easily reparable (or suggest that a building should not be rebuilt in that location), the existing market structures for both property insurance and property more broadly won’t work.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
As climate disasters continue to devastate communities around the world, businesses, governments, and citizens increasingly seek to understand the major contributors to climate change to reverse any reparable effects and ensure a more sustainable future for all.
—Scott Russell, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
The building suffered reparable damage, but renovation efforts have been thwarted, according to owner James Touhuni.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness in the world, but are often reparable with a very low-cost surgery that inserts a new lens.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2020
The city's official position was that the soldier was not reparable.
—The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 July 2017
The escalation of tensions between Qatar and key Gulf states is neither new nor completely reparable.
—Aaron David Miller and Jason M. Brodsky, CNN, 7 June 2017
Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
If hazards stop being rare, stop being predictable, and/or produce damages that aren’t easily reparable (or suggest that a building should not be rebuilt in that location), the existing market structures for both property insurance and property more broadly won’t work.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
As climate disasters continue to devastate communities around the world, businesses, governments, and citizens increasingly seek to understand the major contributors to climate change to reverse any reparable effects and ensure a more sustainable future for all.
—Scott Russell, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
The building suffered reparable damage, but renovation efforts have been thwarted, according to owner James Touhuni.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness in the world, but are often reparable with a very low-cost surgery that inserts a new lens.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2020
The city's official position was that the soldier was not reparable.
—The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 July 2017
The escalation of tensions between Qatar and key Gulf states is neither new nor completely reparable.
—Aaron David Miller and Jason M. Brodsky, CNN, 7 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reparable
Adjective
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Several whistleblowers from Maryland’s Department of Human Services alleged a troubling scheme to deliberately leave correctable errors uncorrected in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) payments, artificially keeping the error rate high to delay federal penalties.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Feb. 2026
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Interim special teams coordinator Ben Kotwica and punter Ethan Evans said the problem was correctable.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2026
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The legislation is part of a broader EU strategy to make products more durable, repairable and recyclable, positioning the bloc at the forefront of global efforts to curb textile waste.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Earlier this year, repairable computer maker Framework released a laptop that can support a RISC-V mainboard, bringing open-source architecture to the masses—or at least, developers and early adopters interested in straying from mainstream closed architectures.—
Gwendolyn Rak,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Reparable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reparable. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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