knowable

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Recent Examples of knowable But whatever history is ultimately knowable, certain falsehoods and myths can be dispelled. Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025 But there's more intrigue and more mystery, because nothing's totally knowable and solved. Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 30 May 2025 Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025 But the details surrounding the characters of DOOM, their motivations, and their actions are intentionally shorn away, creating the sense that this is a work guided by an inner logic knowable only to the performers themselves. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for knowable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
  • The story is actually intelligible this time around, but while the mecha designs look wonderful, the characters definitely needed more work.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • These observations are premised solely for the purpose of rendering more intelligible those which apply more directly to the particular case under consideration.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • In the lab, Goldie’s thoughts circled and surrounded the minutiae of analysis and computation, sorted microscopic comparisons, developed overviews that laid out sequences and processes logically and accurately in theories not otherwise comprehensible.
    Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Crosser, going into detail comprehensible only to the network-savvy attendees, laid out all the steps Zoom may go through trying to connect from within a highly secure network.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • His lowest point came midway through this tournament, and that chastening defeat to East Germany — a game Schon desperately wanted to win, for understandable reasons.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Pressures are understandable, but Campbell has to do a better job of limiting pre-snap penalties.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Apple and OpenAI may move to dismiss, arguing the complaint fails to plead a coherent market, a cognizable agreement to restrain trade, or non-speculative consumer harm.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Even with Klayman not meeting the $30,000 threshold, Delgado could have recognized jurisdiction if Klayman stated a cognizable claim.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • This is made manifest through four sections (two comprising the majority of the book).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Chaves isn’t so interested in making psychic vision manifest via a film camera — that’s been done before anyway.
    Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And a soft implant can be the best option to avoid an obvious edge.
    Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That’s because your liver won’t give you obvious clues that say there’s a MASH up going there.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lead researchers on the project concluded that there was no unambiguous discovery of life by the Viking landers, but it cannot be completely ruled out.
    Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is the complete opposite of most programming languages, where syntax typically tries to be explicit and unambiguous.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Each track consists of multiple course levels made up of digestible lessons.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This creates a need to develop a digestible calcium system in order to meet the birds' requirements and generate accurate ratios between the two nutrients.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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