: able to be done or attained : achievable, possible
It will be difficult, but it's still doable.
You wouldn't want your first outside venture to be in Fiji or something. Pennsylvania is very doable. It's not far from here.—
Mitchel Etess
Mitchel EtessThe format is arranged to present a dish's original recipe in Latin, then translate and modernize it so that it is more doable than not.—Richard Flaste
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the assignment will be just barely doable in the time allowed
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But, according to the survey, overcoming these challenges and barriers is doable with fixes like cooler temps (between 60 and 67 degrees), a better mattress, and a dark room.
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
When it’s treated early, living a relatively healthy life is doable.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Replacing Dowdle’s production with a draft pick or two is doable.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2025
Foreign policy must reach for the doable as well as the desirable, and an approach of such ambition would be unrealistic, in part because what would likely be essential to realizing one or two of the goals would be incompatible with accomplishing the third.
—Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
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Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
When it’s treated early, living a relatively healthy life is doable.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Replacing Dowdle’s production with a draft pick or two is doable.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2025
Foreign policy must reach for the doable as well as the desirable, and an approach of such ambition would be unrealistic, in part because what would likely be essential to realizing one or two of the goals would be incompatible with accomplishing the third.
—Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Doable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doable. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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