How to Use knowable in a Sentence
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Whether that happens this season isn’t in the realm of knowable things.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
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At stake is nothing less than the nature of what’s knowable.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
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Yet the idea that the Caribbean is a place without a knowable past remains.
—Marlene Daut, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2021
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The next step is preparing for the knowable and unknowable that lie ahead.
—Jose Luis Castro, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
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If there are just a few gray men in a Davos boardroom pulling the levers, then the world is potentially knowable.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 12 June 2021
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Moreover, the things that might have to be done to protect the country are not antecedently knowable.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
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Here are six questions — some knowable, others more opaque — that could shape how the Ravens proceed on Day 1.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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Maybe female, maybe male, maybe both, maybe different from all that is known and knowable.
—Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
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The answers to many of these questions may not be knowable yet, but that doesn’t mean business leaders shouldn’t be thinking about them.
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
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The stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood are more image than substance, more enigma than knowable.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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Whether Biden can overcome those problems isn’t knowable.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
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The South, though, is often seen as stuck in the past, Durham said, an already knowable space that lacks the diversity of other regions.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 18 Sep. 2022
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Science journalism, like science itself, does a lot of its labor on the edge of the knowable, in foggy realms.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
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So, thanks to chaos theory our future is never knowable to us.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2013
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He is completely unfazed by the prospect of a world that is uncertain to its roots, of one that is incompletely knowable.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
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The danger was knowable, something that could be combatted.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
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For more than a year, when nearly nothing seemed knowable or controllable about the coronavirus, masks were the one thing people could turn to for some semblance of agency.
—Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
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Time spent in this way felt both meaningful and knowable, oriented around a kind of specific future.
—Emily Beyda, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2021
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But, at least in the show’s early going, the character is neither knowable nor possessed of the tingly charge of unknowability.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
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The only thing that is knowable and important for you is your long-term objectives and your investment strategy to achieve them.
—Jonathan Dash, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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In both cases, human beings, writing with an ardor and an inspiration that indeed seem sacred, went to the edge of the knowable.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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Push for cost transparency so that prices are knowable to patients ahead of time, thus allowing for informed decisions.
—Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2020
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Others don’t allow novelty bets where there is a knowable answer, like what color headband a player may wear.
—Dante Chinni, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2023
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Both artists dismantled the notion that our identities are either stable or knowable.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
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Every policy decision is a bet on a future that is at best only partially knowable.
—William A. Galston, WSJ, 18 May 2021
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The recent work suggests that the search for long-running computer programs can illuminate the state of mathematical knowledge, and even tell us what’s knowable.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
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Wolff suggests Trump dwells outside the knowable and the conventionally understood.
—New York Times, 15 July 2021
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Portraying the queen, who died at age 96 on Thursday, required accessing the interior world of a restrained public figure who at times seemed as knowable as a postcard picture.
—WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
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The exposure of Charles’ infidelity, and descriptions of emotional cruelty at the hands of royal family members, rendered the lofty beings in the palace knowable and thus open to critique.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
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There’s also another quality, less knowable: The under-the-surface subtlety of her drama.
—Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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