as in manageable
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for controllable
Adjective
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The fire, lacking fuel, collapsed into a manageable threat.—
CalMatters,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025 -
At the very least, the centralized app seems poised to make the increasingly complicated job of NHL general manager slightly more manageable.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Aug. 2021
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When the pandemic blew everything up, situations that seemed intractable (the need to go to the office every day, for example) suddenly proved surprisingly tractable.—
Ada Calhoun,
TIME,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The idea that leadership can be taught lies in the understanding that leadership style components can be broken down into teachable parts and refined through practice.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The lesson was clear: Technical skills are teachable; cultural fit isn’t.—
Sergii Malomuzh,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Economist Samuel Tombs of Capital Economics said the drop was a big reason for February’s tame inflation reading.—
Paul Davidson,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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The campaign, which uses infographics by depicting wild animals next to more tame animals, seeks to promote awareness on how immunization can help protect individuals from the flu.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Native to the rainforests of Central America, this species is prized for its beautiful appearance and relatively docile nature.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
23 Nov. 2024
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition (March 25) takes a wary view of its own contents, which span half a millennium, arguing that the West acted out its daydreams of a docile Orient one cup-and-saucer at a time.—
Shauna Lyon,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Oil and gas that is not compliant would face a 10% tariff.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2025
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Trump delayed the original duties until March, and then added another one-month reprieve for all vehicles compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) rules of origin.—
Nora Eckert,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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His oxygen tank sat at his knees like an obedient mastiff.—
Brandon Taylor,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2025
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Anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.—
Bebe Hodges,
USA TODAY,
15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Luckily, his style, always so ahead of us, is amenable to the close scrutiny of streaming.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2025
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The couple were amenable to the idea, and the Pritzker Prize, first awarded to architect Philip Johnson in 1979, went on to become the world’s single most prestigious architecture award.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Controllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/controllable. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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