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Recent Examples of retrievable
He might be better served by taking his own advice before dissing so many of his fellow rappers on publicly retrievable jail calls.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrievable
Adjective
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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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These scientific advances have made devices more durable, repairable and recyclable.—
Suvrat Dhanorkar,
The Conversation,
10 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.—
Phillips Payson O’Brien,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2025
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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
Adjective
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Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.—
Vincent Blocker,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2023
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Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
26 Apr. 2022
Adjective
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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 team’s approach involved applying pulses at specific times to make counter-rotating errors consistent and correctable.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Those vouchers would be redeemable for a future men’s basketball game this season, based on availability.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Jan. 2026
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But there were a few redeemable qualities each had, and Ross should be looking for these traits in all of his candidates.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Rather, the agency is hung up on fixable deficiencies at third-party manufacturing sites.—
Ross Marchand,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2026
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The good news is that chocolate stains are fixable.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Retrievable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrievable. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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