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as in profitable
fit to be offered for sale
realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs
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as in corporate
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale
trying to turn their invention into a marketable product
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Recent Examples of marketable
Programs like Purdue’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts and Brandeis University’s Center for Careers and Applied Liberal Arts are preparing undergraduates to internalize and articulate just the kind of marketable value that Karp prizes.
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Benjamin Wolff, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
So the world’s most marketable athlete must be a soccer player, right?
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Three seasons at Princeton and a wave of Canadian success in hoops, led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Andrew Wiggins and former Gator Andrew Nembhard, eventually made Lee a top transfer target in America and marketable back back home.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
Concerns have turned to whether the league will be able to keep the Washington Spirit's Trinity Rodman, one of the most marketable women in soccer, in the off-season.
—Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
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Benjamin Wolff, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
So the world’s most marketable athlete must be a soccer player, right?
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Three seasons at Princeton and a wave of Canadian success in hoops, led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Andrew Wiggins and former Gator Andrew Nembhard, eventually made Lee a top transfer target in America and marketable back back home.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
Concerns have turned to whether the league will be able to keep the Washington Spirit's Trinity Rodman, one of the most marketable women in soccer, in the off-season.
—Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
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Airlines can also save money by cutting less profitable flights, which can drive up costs for passengers, too.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2026
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The closures reflect Walmart’s shifting supply chain strategy, which has resulted in faster delivery along with a profitable e-commerce operation.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Eco effort Special acknowledgement needs to be made toward the hotel’s approach to conservation through the lens of community, an extension of Four Seasons’ corporate philosophy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Part of the company’s dramatic turnaround since new ownership took over in 2019 has been to allow individual stores to tailor the shopping experience and displays to their local markets, rather than corporate’s cookie-cutter mandates, according to reporting by ModernRetail.—
Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
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Bulls that aren’t saleable become steer for the ranch’s beef market, a direct-to-consumer enterprise through which local families can purchase beef by the pound or buy beef shares — freezer beef sold in quarters, halves or wholes.—
Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
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With most of the master’s level degrees, any pretense of value beyond rendering the prospective students more salable in the workforce is often dispensed with entirely.—
James Cramer,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2026
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The driver had no valid commercial driver's license and could not meet the English language proficiency requirement.—
Karen Morfitt,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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This new collection underscores the commercial readiness of FiberColors for premium denim applications.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Though her offensive numbers dipped late in the season, her defensive consistency and versatility remained valuable.—
Aaron Segal,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 2026
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However, the constant barrage of stories that focus only on wrongdoing within our law enforcement agencies, when left completely unchecked by ones that celebrate the many valuable (and, in some cases, heroic) contributions, serve only to unfairly fan the flames of distrust and vitriol.—
Craig MacLellan,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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Were there various reasons for cancellation or has Hawaii become too expensive?—
Rich Heldenfels,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Dinner was a delicate salad that Joan had made from thirty-seven dollars’ worth of farmers’-market produce, and a fresh pasta from an extraordinarily expensive local business that the residents of the Lower Haight enthusiastically supported.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Literary agents emphasize that a strong, sellable novel concept is more important than an author's social media platform or industry connections.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
22 Mar. 2026
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These efforts support the company’s advancement toward regulatory self-certification, EPA certification, and progress toward delivering sellable vehicles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketable. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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