trainable

adjective

as in teachable

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Recent Examples of trainable Nervous system training has moved from clinical biofeedback labs to everyday wrist wearables, with brands like Oura, WHOOP and Apollo Neuro reframing stress as a trainable fitness metric. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026 The infrastructure layer that makes those models trainable, specifically, the physical world data supply chain, remains underfunded relative to the problem size. — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 29 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 But with consistent training, that decline is far less pronounced, and in your 40s, aerobic capacity is still highly trainable. — Jim Diehl Cscs, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026 The brain and the mind are trainable. — Amanda Schupak, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026 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 Their top picks include German shepherds, known for their bravery, obedience, and gentle nature; Rottweilers, intelligent and loyal when well-trained and socialized; and Doberman Pinschers, athletic and energetic but very trainable. — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025 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, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainable
  1. teachable
  2. tractable
  3. controllable
  4. obedient
  5. docile
  6. manageable
  7. tame
  8. compliant
Adjective
  • This practical training is vital for the profession's future, improving retention and new graduate confidence by treating difficult conversations as a teachable skill.
    — Kwame Christian Esq, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Colleagues have praised not only his command of physiology but also his ability to make his reasoning legible—to turn clinical uncertainty into something teachable.
    — Alexandra Sifferlin, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of teachable
Adjective
  • External control arms, comparative effectiveness studies against real-world standard of care, post-market expansions of indication and broader safety analyses all become more tractable.
    — David Talby, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • After decades of mathematicians spinning their wheels, the problem suddenly seemed tractable.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
Definition of tractable
Adjective
  • The Seoul design treats the bright and dark modes as part of a unified controllable system, and introduces two tunable loop couplers into the resonator architecture.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Customer service commitments for controllable delays and cancellations vary by airline and can be found on their websites and the DOT’s consumer dashboard.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of controllable
Adjective
  • Reflecting on her obedient past as a child actor, Panettiere told THR that that pressure ultimately took a toll on her.
    — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The native, late summer-blooming obedient plant is a showy addition to your garden.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of obedient
Adjective
  • Their quaint view of women as meek, docile and powerless clearly worked in her favor.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Corliss said the shark that bit Daniel was a nurse shark, a docile species that experts say is rarely implicated in shark bites.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of docile
Adjective
  • Rather than immediately exposing maneuver forces to direct contact, Russian commanders typically first attempt to inflict sufficient losses on Ukrainian defenders to make the subsequent assault more manageable.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Our view is that those requirements are manageable for Meta because younger users represent only a small portion of Facebook and Instagram's audiences.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of manageable
Adjective
  • Washington recently took a stake in a firm — run by a former Venezuelan government contractor who faces widespread corruption accusations — in an effort to tap the world’s largest oil reserves and tame fuel prices at home.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The Federal Open Market Committee typically raises rates to help tame inflation, which rose faster than paychecks over the year in July and has remained above the Fed’s 2% target for five years.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of tame
Adjective
  • Airwallex—which has taken a hefty investment from Visa—is also backing a startup called Metal that is building a blockchain designed to be compliant with all local financial regulations right out of the box.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Both homes later passed follow-up inspections and were labeled compliant.
    — Matan Josephy, Idaho Statesman, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of compliant

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“Trainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainable. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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