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as in justifiable
capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack
a line of argument that is probably not sustainable in a public forum against skilled debaters
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as in verifiable
capable of being proven as true or real
has no sustainable claim to the property without a deed or some other document
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as in endurable
capable of being endured
the general didn't think that such heavy casualties could be sustainable for much longer
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Recent Examples of sustainable
As their use continues to grow, sustainable recycling methods are becoming more critical.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Given the vast competition of the open internet, the cost of bringing in new visitors, and the reticence of traditional businesses to trust the web over radio and TV in those early days, sustainable ad dollars proved hard to come by.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025
The panel tackled strategies to make the food system and supply chain more sustainable.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
The building can then compare the cost of taking the service from the sustainable energy district to the cost of installing its own cooling system, Tennille said.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2025
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Given the vast competition of the open internet, the cost of bringing in new visitors, and the reticence of traditional businesses to trust the web over radio and TV in those early days, sustainable ad dollars proved hard to come by.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025
The panel tackled strategies to make the food system and supply chain more sustainable.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
The building can then compare the cost of taking the service from the sustainable energy district to the cost of installing its own cooling system, Tennille said.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sustainable
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But even defensive gun uses that are ultimately ruled to be justifiable often result in legal consequences—investigations, charges, grand-jury proceedings, and sometimes trials.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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There is a justifiable public-health rationale for going after these shops.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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Whether Optimus becomes America’s poster child for humanoids depends on Tesla moving from spectacle to sustained, independently verifiable results and its ability to manage supply-chain, production, and service economics at scale.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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The team believes models in the coming years may evolve to have effective simulated reasoning without producing a verifiable chain of thought.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That's not a just, endurable peace.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
17 Aug. 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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This patchwork of laws, the demonstrable technological hurdles, and the symbolic value of lunar firsts combine to create an environment of competition that could resemble past resource rushes.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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An illusion endlessly repeated despite its demonstrable untruth ceases to be an illusion and becomes a lie; a lie endlessly retold can become second nature, so ingrained and instinctive as to detach from its origins and morph into self-delusion.—
HUSSEIN AGHA,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Sep. 2025
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Today our data may be unassailably empirical, but our emotions are very much apocalyptic.—
Ed Simon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Sustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sustainable. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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