How to Use knowable in a Sentence

knowable

adjective

• Whether that happens this season isn’t in the realm of knowable things.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• At stake is nothing less than the nature of what’s knowable.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Yet the idea that the Caribbean is a place without a knowable past remains.
  — Marlene Daut, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2021
• The next step is preparing for the knowable and unknowable that lie ahead.
  — Jose Luis Castro, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Maybe female, maybe male, maybe both, maybe different from all that is known and knowable.
  — Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Whether Biden can overcome those problems isn’t knowable.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• So, thanks to chaos theory our future is never knowable to us.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2013
• 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
• The danger was knowable, something that could be combatted.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Both artists dismantled the notion that our identities are either stable or knowable.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Every policy decision is a bet on a future that is at best only partially knowable.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 18 May 2021
• 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
• Wolff suggests Trump dwells outside the knowable and the conventionally understood.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• There’s also another quality, less knowable: The under-the-surface subtlety of her drama.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024