controllable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for controllable
Adjective
  • The bitter flavors of the fruit are strong enough to keep the sweet from being overpowering, and the sour makes the bitter more manageable.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Bank of America reiterates Nike as buy The investment bank lowered its price target on Nike to $80 per share from $90 but said tariffs are manageable.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But tractable torque delivery of 324 lb-ft, which hits at 5,800 rpm, makes the process of revving and gearshifting an absolute pleasure.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Gabriel Navarro and two colleagues turned one of group theory’s biggest open conjectures into a tractable problem.
    Leila Sloman, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Identifying Future CFOs An 8/10 on technical skills (teachable) is OK, but leadership traits (complex to develop) should be 10/10.
    Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But this robot is powered by a teachable AI neural network.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This brow-shaping wax takes a little finesse to learn how to use but is well worth it for making your brows look tame and trimmed.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Economists expect tame readings in March in the key inflation measures tracked by the Federal Reserve for its 2% target.
    Lucia Mutikani, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Jazz is much more docile and laid back, whereas Jax is high energy and was always the Alpha when playing with Jazz.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Indeed, the title of the series emphasizes how her approach invokes a broader, global discourse about the female body as a container of the concepts of the domestic, the sexualized, and the docile.
    María Elena Ortiz, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Additionally, the sheer steepness of the tariffs have created some barriers for trucking, especially the 25-percent duties levied on the U.S. neighbors for products not already compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 22 Apr. 2025
  • What identification qualifies as compliant with Real ID?
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • As such, the NFL seems to be amenable to taking a long look at shifting more games—and, perhaps, complete TV packages—to the streaming arrivistes.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Yet that rhetoric is something that Americans may be amenable to.
    Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Controllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/controllable. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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