teachable

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Recent Examples of teachable That is why this moment should be treated as a teachable one. Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026 Be teachable and engage in open-minded conversations. Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 5 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 See All Example Sentences for teachable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachable
Adjective
  • Many organizations struggle by waiting for creative inspiration, viewing it as a character trait rather than a trainable muscle.
    Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This process, as intended, engages adaptive immune responses, the part of the immune system known to be trainable.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • After decades of mathematicians spinning their wheels, the problem suddenly seemed tractable.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • And, at high volume, latency improves, data residency requirements become tractable and vendor concentration risk is eliminated from the critical path.
    Smriti Kirubanandan, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • The new model boasts 20% stronger cooling performance and up to ten hours of battery life, controllable through buttons or a smartphone app for granular settings.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Even factors that are more controllable include an element of guesswork, notably whether a player thriving at an inferior level can make the step up to the Premier League.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • Combined, those supply boosts made the shock considerably more manageable for the market to absorb.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • The temperature at Wimbledon on Monday is expected to be a much more manageable 24 C (75 F).
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
Adjective
  • Richards gave millions of dollars to the cult, Eternal Values, while living a double life as both a globe-trotting supermodel and obedient cult member, as reported in a recent story in The Hollywood Reporter.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
  • The Flaws are the typical employees of a German government office – quiet, obedient and spectacularly bad at their jobs.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 June 2026
Adjective
  • In April, Hulu began airing the series The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale that depicts teen girls trained to be docile homemakers.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • His humble and docile disposition resembles that of the air sign Libra, which holds moral righteousness and fair-mindedness.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Adjective
  • The submissive Colin finds new confidence and enjoys doing assorted things for Ray, but complications arise when Colin begins to want something more emotional.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • This is a strategy born not of manly strength, but of submissive desperation.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Adjective
  • These are the people who will likely be most amenable to negotiations or personal entreaties.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 June 2026
  • And only certain types of problems are amenable to this approach.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026

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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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