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as in justifiable
capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack
are there ever circumstances where laws that restrict a person's freedom of speech are supportable?
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as in endurable
capable of being endured
her beloved cat had been rescued from the burning house, making her other losses at least supportable
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as in verifiable
capable of being proven as true or real
the news editor simply assumed the facts of the story were supportable and did not assign it to a fact checker
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Adjective
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Although there will always be privacy concerns when using AI of any kind, justifiable or not, there’s no denying that the Android attack protection that will derive from the simple act of filtering out more nefarious notifications is most welcome.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025 -
In hindsight, his decision to betray his budding mentee, Han, was perfectly justifiable.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2025
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Those intimate pauses are more endurable than the film’s particularly unfunny comic centerpiece, in which the men venture into a nightclub to meet with a generic, coke-addled magnate.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
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Experts suggest parents should encourage teens to only seek health advice from professionals with verifiable information.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
14 May 2025
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Look, a longstanding peace in that part of the world between Ukraine and Russia, that’s verifiable, is going to be good for Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and the United States.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
11 May 2025
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Conservation will be an important element toward sustainable water supply but to avoid future water shortages utilities will still be forced to develop alternative water sources that are more resilient to climate changes.—
Bob Maliva,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2025
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This iteration just is not gonna be sustainable for this team.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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But authentic, demonstrable progress: proof of better outcomes, built on real expertise.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Since then, Google has released its Gemini 2.0 and 2.5 models, both of which have shown demonstrable improvements over the previous iterations.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2025
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These include: Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Self-Regulation Programs While there is enthusiasm around self-regulation, limited empirical research on its effectiveness means that the long-term impacts of some programs are not fully understood.—
Eric Reicin,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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But empirical research strongly refutes the idea that misinformation is simply in the eye of the beholder.—
Sander van der Linden,
Time,
6 May 2025
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“Supportable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supportable. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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