trainable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainable
Adjective
  • Training someone to take over a repeatable task: This proves the business is teachable, and that’s what buyers look for.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 18 June 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • But tractable torque delivery of 324 lb-ft, which hits at 5,800 rpm, makes the process of revving and gearshifting an absolute pleasure.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The scale asks whether a respondent tends to prefer children who are obedient, well behaved and well mannered or children who are independent, creative and considerate.
    Adam Eichen, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
  • Those who tend to favor obedient children are scored as having more authoritarian views.
    Adam Eichen, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Moreover, the website adds that these animals are usually quite docile in nature and are generally not known to attack humans.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • This was a bird so docile and unafraid of environmental threats it was hunted out of existence in less than 100 years.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • This provides a broad yet manageable menu with options for everyone to try without feeling overwhelmed by choices.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2025
  • When 2030 arrives and the penalty for breaking the grant-of-rights drops to a manageable amount, Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, Miami and perhaps others will seek routes into the SEC or Big Ten.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • On a monthly basis, in fact, inflation was mostly tame.
    Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Assuming June delivers another tame inflation reading, then the attention of policymakers may be more focused on labor market risks.
    Simon Moore, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Senate Parliamentarian upheld a provision in the bill prohibiting Medicaid funds from being used to reimburse health clinics that also provide elective abortions, saying that the measure was compliant with the Byrd Rule, which restricts what can be included in a budget reconciliation bill.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2025
  • Today’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, has proven to be far less compliant.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • But while the Internet is torn over whether Carpenter’s submissive position on the Man’s Best Friend cover is funny or degrading, Whoopi Goldberg was more concerned with something else.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 12 June 2025
  • By contrast, a beta is supposedly weak and submissive—a follower.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Trainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainable. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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