as in repairable
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Adjective
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How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.—
Phillips Payson O’Brien,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2025 -
Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.—
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.—
Vincent Blocker,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2023
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Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
26 Apr. 2022
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“Retrievable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrievable. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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