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Recent Examples of teachable
That makes performance testable and the discipline teachable, both of which are the hallmarks of genuine management science.
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Pawan Anand, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Is a love of art and a willingness to give your life over to art teachable?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
But this robot is powered by a teachable AI neural network.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
The idea that leadership can be taught lies in the understanding that leadership style components can be broken down into teachable parts and refined through practice.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Pawan Anand, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Is a love of art and a willingness to give your life over to art teachable?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
But this robot is powered by a teachable AI neural network.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
The idea that leadership can be taught lies in the understanding that leadership style components can be broken down into teachable parts and refined through practice.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachable
Adjective
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Smaller dogs – those under 20 lb (9 kg) – were reported as more fearful, more aggressive, and more attention-seeking, but less trainable than larger dogs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Sep. 2025
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Someone who is coachable and trainable.—
Rob Lancit,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Until recently, their goal has been to attack the more tractable pure delivery market with a custom delivery robot about half the size of traditional cars.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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These prove out Fielder’s intuition that aviation safety depends on candid cockpit conversation, a particularly high-stakes—and, crucially, perhaps tractable—example of Fielder’s over-all preoccupation with the fear and anxiety that inhibits genuine communication.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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The purpose of Bains’s lesson is to provide ways to focus on controllable things, to be positive, because en route to a scholarship, there are likely to be many setbacks.—
Eduardo Tansley,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Patients placed their heads in a box illuminated by LED lights, which emitted a stable and controllable wavelength of light, and exposed their tongues.—
Eve Lu,
Scientific American,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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These include identifying specific stressors, breaking large problems into manageable steps, and taking concrete action rather than ruminating on difficulties.—
Ashley Lutz,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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By 2002, Casa de los Trucos had seven locations throughout South Florida and recently downsized to the original Calle Ocho location to make things more manageable for the Torres family.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Tyrell Corporation, a powerful company that created the replicants and profits from sending them to work on distant colonies, sees them as nothing more than obedient workers.—
Claire A. Simmers,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2025
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The pawrent, who uses the social media tag @dollythesassysausage, shared the unconventional tactic of tying the lead of their sausage dog, Dolly, to their sibling's dog—an obedient cocker spaniel called Cooper.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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However, because the animals' natural habitats share some overlap and both have similarly docile dispositions, zoos often group howlers and capybaras together.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
3 Oct. 2025
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This is a treat that many wee Britons had on Fridays to keep them docile all week.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The titillating drama explores the complexities of dominant-submissive relationships and fetishes, as Ray gets aroused by making Colin lick his boots, buy his groceries and sleep at the foot of his bed.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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And the movement could never be as iconic as Sergio Busquets’ submissive touch, pause and guide for Lionel Messi to embark on one of the best solo goals ever seen in the 2011 El Clasico semi-final at the Bernabeu.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The official described the idea that Trump may be amenable to accepting Democrats’ full list of demands as wishful thinking from the opposing party.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Sigamani said an amenable solution for such a mistake often could be negotiated in the past with the Department of Homeland Security, but apparently not this time.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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