salvable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvable
Adjective
  • How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.
    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
Adjective
  • The result is a home that can withstand both earthquakes and high winds, while remaining low-cost and easily repairable.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Pixel 4 is now repairable, either by you via repair kits or by sending it to Google.
    Brent Rose, Outside, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Antony Anderson looks for salvageable items Thursday in Black River, Jamaica.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Easier said than done of course, but Sunday’s game against the Falcons will tell us all if this bleak season is salvageable, or if McDaniel’s team has quit on him and is going through the motions.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • All the mistakes are correctable.
    Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Considering how fraught things turned through the spring, some will wonder what’s rectifiable.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • If any air gets trapped in the pump, this is easily rectifiable by utilizing the unit’s air release valve.
    Kat de Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Johnson wrote in a letter in the filing to the Illinois review board that Hoover is repentant and has the potential and the desire to live the rest of his life as a force for good in his community.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Perry had been reluctant to engage with recovery groups in the past, which are often structured around repentant confessions.
    Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This is a fixable issue, though.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The plumber can check if there are fixable issues with the switch, check valve, and drainage pipe.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • When in the presence of God, one is meant to assume a penitent air.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • For his part, the boy is quiet and seems penitent, making the cell a calming refuge for Dean within an institution unofficially ruled by a cutthroat mini mob boss, Freddie (Ishay Lalosh).
    Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
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“Salvable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salvable. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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