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Recent Examples of teachable
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.
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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
Is a love of art and a willingness to give your life over to art teachable?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
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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
Is a love of art and a willingness to give your life over to art teachable?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 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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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
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Anybody can ask a new question, but to ask which questions at this point in time have both impact and are tractable is actually really hard.—
Jonathan Wosen,
STAT,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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This demonstrates that the system is not just a one-time effect but a controllable mechanical response.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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In September, EssilorLuxottica and Meta introduced a new Ray-Ban iteration, controllable through hand gestures and neural technology.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The climate challenge is more nuanced and manageable than the agency once assumed.—
Steven Koonin,
Washington Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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That’s why some rocket builders opt to use hydrogen for the upper stages of launch vehicles, but make use of a more manageable fuel for a rocket’s first stage, which houses all the engines that give the initial burst of power off the launchpad.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The audience would do well to stay attuned to this goal — and how obedient Nat is willing to be.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Intelligence Age doesn’t require obedient workers.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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New groups have sprouted, and protests have penetrated formerly docile suburbs.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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After implanting him with the device, a now docile Hank reveals that he's already released implanted people into the Wasteland — and that they've been given instructions.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Carroll County needs leadership, not submissive accountants dutifully sharpening the axe.—
Randy Linville,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Feb. 2026
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Curiosity flickers across his face when his submissive surprises him.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Yermak’s successor, Kyrylo Budanov, a lieutenant general and spymaster who now leads Ukraine’s negotiating team, has been more amenable to compromises, even on the question of territory.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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Gregory Bovino with border czar Tom Homan and the subsequent reduction of ICE agents in Minneapolis are evidence that the president is amenable to finding a better solution at the present time.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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