as in correctable
capable of being corrected
whether the harm your lying has done to our friendship is reparable or irreparable depends a lot on you
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Recent Examples of reparable
Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
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Anne Pinto-Rodrigues,
Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jan. 2025
The building suffered reparable damage, but renovation efforts have been thwarted, according to owner James Touhuni.
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Brian Maffly,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
14 Mar. 2021
Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness in the world, but are often reparable with a very low-cost surgery that inserts a new lens.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
18 June 2020
The city's official position was that the soldier was not reparable.
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The Washington Post,
AL.com,
20 July 2017
The escalation of tensions between Qatar and key Gulf states is neither new nor completely reparable.
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Aaron David Miller and Jason M. Brodsky,
CNN,
7 June 2017
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues,
Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jan. 2025
The building suffered reparable damage, but renovation efforts have been thwarted, according to owner James Touhuni.
—
Brian Maffly,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
14 Mar. 2021
Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness in the world, but are often reparable with a very low-cost surgery that inserts a new lens.
—
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
18 June 2020
The city's official position was that the soldier was not reparable.
—
The Washington Post,
AL.com,
20 July 2017
The escalation of tensions between Qatar and key Gulf states is neither new nor completely reparable.
—
Aaron David Miller and Jason M. Brodsky,
CNN,
7 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reparable
Adjective
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Calm, easy to pilot, and both predictable and correctable on track, the F80 transforms into a snarling monster on the road.
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The shortcomings — insufficient specificity, thin systemic risk analysis, bank-centric case studies — are significant but correctable.
Adjective
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Modular designs and repairable form factors extend useful life and reduce the volume of devices retired prematurely due to single-component failure.
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And is any error repairable without a public crisis?
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“Reparable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reparable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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