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Recent Examples of teachable
Be teachable and engage in open-minded conversations.
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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
Even widely praised qualities such as empathy or teamwork are often less about teachable techniques than about dispositional tendencies toward agreeableness and social attunement, which happen to pay off in contexts that demand collaboration and care.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
You are invited to stay teachable, lead with intellect and discernment, and use your innate spiritual technology that lives within you to reinvent ways of living that are efficient and needed.
—Tatianna Tarot, Refinery29, 2 Dec. 2025
These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
Even widely praised qualities such as empathy or teamwork are often less about teachable techniques than about dispositional tendencies toward agreeableness and social attunement, which happen to pay off in contexts that demand collaboration and care.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
You are invited to stay teachable, lead with intellect and discernment, and use your innate spiritual technology that lives within you to reinvent ways of living that are efficient and needed.
—Tatianna Tarot, Refinery29, 2 Dec. 2025
These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachable
Adjective
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The brain and the mind are trainable.—
Amanda Schupak,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Encourage teams to treat the AI as a trainable colleague who doesn’t complain doing dull and repetitive work, rather than a replacement.—
Paul Eremenko,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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At the top will be the most computationally intensive methods—prohibitively expensive on classical computers but tractable on quantum computers.—
Chi Chen,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Mar. 2026
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Thanks to housing crises in big cities, many aspiring writers can’t afford rooms of their own, and contractions in the media industry have made writing as a profession less tractable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In reality, the reasons are usually much simpler and far more controllable.—
Allen Buchanan,
Oc Register,
7 Mar. 2026
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But each of these advancements are controllable.—
Aaron Heisen,
Daily News,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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If China pulls this off, then the tech could allegedly offer a perpetual fountain of clean energy while potentially turning the destructive storms into manageable weather events.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Mar. 2026
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Despite sizeble Iranian oil imports, analysts believe the short-term impact should be manageable as China has diversified its oil supply over the years.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Tariffs could be 'hard sell' in election year How obedient will the congressional GOP be to Trump in an election year?—
Justin Papp,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2026
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The audience would do well to stay attuned to this goal — and how obedient Nat is willing to be.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Deer are very docile animals and are simply looking for sustenance in terms of food and water.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Feb. 2026
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Why are Japanese crowds so docile?—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The project, which premiered at Sundance in January, is a zany and absurd exploration of a dominant-submissive relationship.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
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Iran wanted Iraq to remain weak and submissive, and in the meantime, corrupt Iranian officials could suck its resources, profit personally, and leave the country an impoverished mess.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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His administration has been amenable to the trend, allowing the industry to thrive in a largely unregulated environment.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
25 Feb. 2026
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And the traditional companies are proving more amenable to helping anchors launch new ventures.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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