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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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Cut Spending to Protect Your Portfolio When markets plunge, one of the most immediate and controllable levers is spending.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Mar. 2026
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That generation’s Turbo, however, was a clear step towards where the car was going, thanks to its addition of standard all-wheel-drive—a change that moved the Turbo from the snap-oversteer-prone monster in previous generations to a controllable, all-weather supercar-slayer.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The union had been pushing for better compensation, stronger job security and more manageable workloads.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Many of these surgeries are performed with local or twilight anesthesia, which may help support a more manageable recovery and address certain surgical risks compared to general anesthesia.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Her son, Navaraj, is obedient and dutiful.—
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
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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
Adjective
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And the receiver comes off as agreeable off the field — without being docile.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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The song is that of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile nature and spectacular leaps from the water, and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, said researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 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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Amir, who has set his sights on political office, proves similarly amenable to the British agenda—to the chagrin of his activist wife, Khuloud (Yasmine Al Massri), who has been writing about the village conflicts in Amir’s newspaper.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Whether that would keep Ferraro a Shark, and whether Grier is amenable to such a contract, is unclear.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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