trainable

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Recent Examples of trainable 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 Someone who is coachable and trainable. Rob Lancit, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Certain feline breeds, including Siamese, Burmese, Bengal, and Devon Rex cats like Leo, are particularly known for their playful, intelligent, and highly trainable personalities. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainable
Adjective
  • These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That makes performance testable and the discipline teachable, both of which are the hallmarks of genuine management science.
    Pawan Anand, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • Until recently, their goal has been to attack the more tractable pure delivery market with a custom delivery robot about half the size of traditional cars.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Tilly, and the technologies that will follow her, promise something cleaner, faster, cheaper and more controllable — but infinitely less relatable.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When exposed to a magnetic field, the film acts like an actuator, contracting, bending, or folding the origami, effectively turning it into a tiny, controllable robot.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a difference, school leaders said, between building the confidence of girls, whom society expects to be obedient and agreeable, and building the confidence of boys, who get different societal messages.
    Melanie Asmar, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The Tyrell Corporation, a powerful company that created the replicants and profits from sending them to work on distant colonies, sees them as nothing more than obedient workers.
    Claire A. Simmers, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Doctors sent Jake Latimer home after he was bitten by a banded sea krait, a docile but highly venomous snake.
    Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
  • However, because the animals' natural habitats share some overlap and both have similarly docile dispositions, zoos often group howlers and capybaras together.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Pruning peppers in fall not only encourages these plants to focus their energy on ripening any remaining fruit before frost arrives but also keeps them at a more manageable size to cover them as needed.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Ensure a simple-enough menu stays manageable with a to-do list so you’re not waylaid by days-long side quests.
    Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • A lot of these products pack a larger caffeine punch, so if that concerns you then Naked Protein’s comparatively tame 95mg might be more your speed.
    Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Oct. 2025
  • While the colorway itself is relatively tame, the hundreds of rhinestone crystals that cover the traditionally leather upper are anything but.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Hulk wasn’t very compliant.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Accessibility and Sustainability Colony Club has one ADA-compliant guest room.
    Kate Van Dyke, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Trainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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