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Recent Examples of knowable
The relationship between Biden and Harris is not easily knowable, no matter what the leaks suggest.
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Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper place.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
At the same time, technological progress has vastly expanded the realm of the knowable.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
Security can be no more absolute than the future can be knowable. . . .
—Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2020
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Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper place.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
At the same time, technological progress has vastly expanded the realm of the knowable.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
Security can be no more absolute than the future can be knowable. . . .
—Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2020
See All Example Sentences for knowable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
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His turn toward politics is probably one of the biggest things to happen to any Marvel character offscreen, right up there with Hulk becoming intelligible between Avengers movies and Tony Stark and Pepper Potts breaking up and reuniting about a dozen times.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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The lyrics manage to be about nothing in particular yet totally intelligible.—
Marc Tracy,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Given the stakes for reproductive autonomy, Donegan’s reservations are entirely comprehensible.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Yet Americans have persuaded themselves that their present challenges are less comprehensible and their politics more venal than those of eras past.—
Kori Schake,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Apr. 2019
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Even with Klayman not meeting the $30,000 threshold, Delgado could have recognized jurisdiction if Klayman stated a cognizable claim.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 Sep. 2024
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Garbarino will be tasked with proving that the DHS leader has committed no less than high crimes and misdemeanors, a rather tall order given the total lack of evidence or even cognizable accusation that Mayorkas did anything improper, let alone remotely rising to this standard.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2024
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The capitulation to Trump was manifest in Senate Republican’s refusal to block any of the president’s cast of unqualified and dangerous nominees to serve in senior cabinet positions.—
Mordechai Gordon,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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The rationale for some kind of second look, or reconsideration of decades of draconian sentencing, is also compelled by the stark racial disparities that are manifest in life and long-term sentences, disparities that increase with longer sentences.—
Steve Zeidman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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This year organizers are acknowledging openly what’s been obvious for a while.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Then there are the injuries and other conditions that emergency physicians treat regularly that are often preventable — but may not be obvious to the rest of us.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some of Frost’s poems have the lilting quality of lullabies; others seem to deliver their morals in unambiguous terms.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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This consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.—
Merag Shahzad,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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The show came to life in 2018, when comedy website CollegeHumor launched Dropout as a streaming service to platform more ambitious content than their output of digestible sketches on YouTube.—
Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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Package data insights into digestible stories that connect to specific team goals.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
11 Feb. 2022
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Conditions in the state the planes left behind them were far less perspicuous.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
8 Feb. 2020
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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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