governable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for governable
Adjective
  • Keep in mind, trading Tagovailoa after the 2025 season would create a $31 million cap savings, which is manageable if the contract stays as is.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The first six months were rough, but now, with a good diet, exercise and my medication, it’s been manageable.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Gabriel Navarro and two colleagues turned one of group theory’s biggest open conjectures into a tractable problem.
    Leila Sloman, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • On the flip side, would a tame number persuade the Fed to resume cutting rates more quickly?
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • It can also be used on the strands to add shine, tame frizz, and combat breakage and split ends.
    Iman Balagam, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But this robot is powered by a teachable AI neural network.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • That’s because police have used the state of exception to sweep up street vendors, who’ve been much more compliant with eviction notices ever since.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In this case two individuals were within a few feet of an armed, non compliant individual.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The once docile Jamie, convinced he’s being manipulated, becomes testy and volatile.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, inflation expectations remained relatively docile — rising only modestly, and falling quickly once inflation began to ease — and the Fed was able to bring down inflation without causing a big increase in unemployment.
    Colby Smith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As such, the NFL seems to be amenable to taking a long look at shifting more games—and, perhaps, complete TV packages—to the streaming arrivistes.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Yet that rhetoric is something that Americans may be amenable to.
    Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In particular, embodiments describe protective cover layer structures that may be implemented in curved, flexible, conformable and foldable display modules, and in particular with curved, flexible, conformable and foldable display panels.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Is this suit more conformable than the costume from Revenge of the Sith?
    Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2022
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“Governable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governable. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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