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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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But with consistent training, that decline is far less pronounced, and in your 40s, aerobic capacity is still highly trainable.—
Jim Diehl CSCS,
Outside,
29 Mar. 2026
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The brain and the mind are trainable.—
Amanda Schupak,
New York Times,
28 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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Digital ethics expert Davi Ottenheimer argued that the presentation evoked both blackface and the fantasy of a controllable Black servant.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
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The agency blames its controllable losses in part to the six-day-per-week universal service obligation.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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China's exposure to the energy shock remains more manageable than that of other major economies due to its massive oil stockpiles and diversified energy mix.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
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Even if their own tax bill is manageable, the idea that the wealthy are underpaying — or that the government is wasting their dollars — bothers many.—
Linley Sanders,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Always obedient, Agnes happily welcomes Daisy despite Shu’s warnings.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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Her son, Navaraj, is obedient and dutiful.—
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Leave some patches of empty ground for docile, ground-dwelling bees that are important pollinators.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Cellphone footage shows Zack holding the leash of an exceptionally docile German shepherd while ordering his uninvited guests to leave.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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However, the nonprofit warns that a bonked chick may lie down and assume a submissive stance with its head down, in a movement similar to holding up a white flag.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
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The more submissive the manager is, the more Frenza will rip into her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Among its more iconic designs is the Traveller jacket, made from a lightweight shell fabric amenable to overheated airports or rainy city days.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
13 Apr. 2026
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Panthera says poaching is down, and the protection and revitalization has made the forest more amenable to big cats.—
Tom Page,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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