teachable

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Recent Examples of teachable That is why this moment should be treated as a teachable one. Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026 Be teachable and engage in open-minded conversations. Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026 You are invited to stay teachable, lead with intellect and discernment, and use your innate spiritual technology that lives within you to reinvent ways of living that are efficient and needed. Tatianna Tarot, Refinery29, 2 Dec. 2025 These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields. Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for teachable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachable
Adjective
  • Nervous system training has moved from clinical biofeedback labs to everyday wrist wearables, with brands like Oura, WHOOP and Apollo Neuro reframing stress as a trainable fitness metric.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • The infrastructure layer that makes those models trainable, specifically, the physical world data supply chain, remains underfunded relative to the problem size.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • Anomaly detection, pattern recognition and risk stratification for pregnancy complications are all tractable applications when the underlying data quality is there, and the design keeps a clinician in the decision loop.
    Edin Deljkic, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • After decades of mathematicians spinning their wheels, the problem suddenly seemed tractable.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • Parliament's attempt to regulate has backfired, creating a more opaque and less controllable environment for youth social media use.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The system is designed to be observable and controllable rather than fully autonomous.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Adjective
  • The Royals’ starting pitcher, Michael Wacha, kept the deficit manageable.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
  • Temperatures in Detroit on July 4 are expected to be in the 80s with heat indices in the 90s, according to the National Weather Service, noting the temperatures are more manageable than in recent days.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Adjective
  • Second, victims of higher taxes don’t stand still and get sheared like obedient sheep.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The dogs Kostyukevich saw on Happy K9 Academy’s Instagram page seemed happy and obedient.
    Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • In April, Hulu began airing the series The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale that depicts teen girls trained to be docile homemakers.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • His humble and docile disposition resembles that of the air sign Libra, which holds moral righteousness and fair-mindedness.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Adjective
  • The submissive Colin finds new confidence and enjoys doing assorted things for Ray, but complications arise when Colin begins to want something more emotional.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • This is a strategy born not of manly strength, but of submissive desperation.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Adjective
  • The combination of relatively low cost and absence of radiation makes this a much more feasible research endeavor than monitoring large numbers of patients with serial CT or MRI scans in organs amenable to ultrasound visualization.
    Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • These are the people who will likely be most amenable to negotiations or personal entreaties.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 June 2026

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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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