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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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At the time, the Royals were excited to get a young, controllable arm for the future.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
25 Sep. 2025
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Despite this, some may have been tipped off to Samsung's potential shift to ads from the company's growing obsession with putting screens on products that are usually controllable with more repairable, affordable, and simpler solutions, like buttons and dials.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Many oncologists now describe metastatic breast cancer as a manageable chronic disease, closer in spirit to conditions like diabetes or heart disease than the uniformly terminal illness it was once considered.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
24 Sep. 2025
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Despite this challenge, researchers reported that patients tolerated the procedure well with manageable side effects.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The Golem was a powerful, obedient protector, performing tasks and defending the ghetto.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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As the story goes, Burns, Joe Thornton and Colin White were at an animal sanctuary and Burns’ cashmere sweater caused the typically docile cheetah to bite him in the ribcage.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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In the wild, rapid growth, a docile temperament and fast egg-laying are not traits that would serve chickens well in the slightest.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jason Ardizzone-West’s set is a predictable slick white box, its blank surfaces submissive to the constant barrage of Brad Peterson’s video projections.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Managers are no longer as cautious, players are no longer as submissive, supporters are no longer as in awe.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
1 Sep. 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 3 Oct. 2025.
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