as in justifiable
capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack
it is important to choose a maintainable position for your thesis
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Recent Examples of maintainable
The vehicle is easily maintainable and highly adaptable to meet diverse mission and operational needs, according to a press release.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
This will be crucial for ensuring the resulting code is easily maintainable by human engineers, but Josh Triplett, an open source developer who contributes to the Rust project, says this may prove challenging.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
This will be crucial for ensuring the resulting code is easily maintainable by human engineers, but Josh Triplett, an open source developer who contributes to the Rust project, says this may prove challenging.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maintainable
justifiable
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The justifiable fury over that incident was probably one of the reasons One Battle won in the first place.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Mar. 2026
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Somehow, Jacob Elordi was able to pull a genuinely affecting performance out of this mess, which makes his nomination the only justifiable one of this movie’s bloated haul.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Maintainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maintainable. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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