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Recent Examples of salvageable
In some cases, this exaggeration can lead salvageable relationships to divorce.
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Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the show surrounding it might be salvageable.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
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
But the reasons behind the divorce, and whether the relationship was really salvageable until Urban decided otherwise, are just speculation.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 Oct. 2025
Godwin expressed hope that the court will intervene, allowing tenants to retrieve their property and salvageable items from their units, mitigating the damages to the extent possible for the residents.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2025
Her company used selective demolition and structural dismantlement on the exterior, which focused on preserving any salvageable building materials.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2025
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the show surrounding it might be salvageable.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
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
But the reasons behind the divorce, and whether the relationship was really salvageable until Urban decided otherwise, are just speculation.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 Oct. 2025
Godwin expressed hope that the court will intervene, allowing tenants to retrieve their property and salvageable items from their units, mitigating the damages to the extent possible for the residents.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2025
Her company used selective demolition and structural dismantlement on the exterior, which focused on preserving any salvageable building materials.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvageable
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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
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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
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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
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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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“Salvageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salvageable. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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