workable
adjective
work·able
ˈwər-kə-bəl 
1
: capable of being worked
a workable material
2
: practicable, feasible
a workable system
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Examples of workable in a Sentence
I think the plan is quite workable.
Chill the cookie dough until it is more workable.
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And yet, despite growing several times over with ballooning city and county funds, the agency hasn’t been deeply involved in coming up with workable plans to get people off the streets and into housing.
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
There is no guarantee that this will be a workable plan over the long haul.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024
Fortunately, Charlie sneaks up on one of the red F-150s outside and renders the engine up in smoke, luring Stallings and the gang outside and leaving Sugar and the ladies with a workable getaway.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Responding to facile criticisms of U.S. policies, the authors reasonably question whether there were ever better, more workable alternatives.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
There is no guarantee that this will be a workable plan over the long haul.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024
Fortunately, Charlie sneaks up on one of the red F-150s outside and renders the engine up in smoke, luring Stallings and the gang outside and leaving Sugar and the ladies with a workable getaway.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Responding to facile criticisms of U.S. policies, the authors reasonably question whether there were ever better, more workable alternatives.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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workable
adjective
work·able
ˈwər-kə-bəl
1
: capable of being worked
2
: feasible
a workable solution to the problem
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