: capable of being known : able to be determined or understood
This year, California votes March 3, and whether it offers a delegate haul for one candidate or a scramble between several candidates is not yet knowable.—
David Weigel
David WeigelAt the end of any year, a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease, and another number won't have.—Jeffrey Kluger and Alice Park
Jeffrey Kluger and Alice ParkA smear of orange tells everything knowable about light when it collides with the bottom of a copper pot.—Peter Schjedlahl
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None of these factors are knowable in advance.
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Michael Bernick,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Some seize on context (what is known or knowable, facts external to Vermeer) as a means of shrinking the blank space surrounding his work.
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Clare Bucknell,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
With enough optimization and intervention, their argument goes, the body can be manipulated into becoming fully knowable, mastered, perfect.
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Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable.
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Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
11 May 2026
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Michael Bernick,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Some seize on context (what is known or knowable, facts external to Vermeer) as a means of shrinking the blank space surrounding his work.
—
Clare Bucknell,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
With enough optimization and intervention, their argument goes, the body can be manipulated into becoming fully knowable, mastered, perfect.
—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable.
—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
11 May 2026
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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knowable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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