as in repairable
capable of being corrected
a racehorse with some minor, correctable faults
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Adjective
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Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.—
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jan. 2025 -
If hazards stop being rare, stop being predictable, and/or produce damages that aren’t easily reparable (or suggest that a building should not be rebuilt in that location), the existing market structures for both property insurance and property more broadly won’t work.—
Alena Botros,
Fortune,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.—
Vincent Blocker,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2023
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Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
26 Apr. 2022
Adjective
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Since the election, there has been a surge in the purchase of emergency contraception as well as appointments for long-acting reversible contraception and vasectomies.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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Medical experts have said puberty blockers are reversible and do not permanently sterilize patients.—
Kiara Alfonseca,
ABC News,
15 Dec. 2024
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What this means is that a smart creditor will immediately seek to register the charging order as a sister-state order in a jurisdiction where the LLC is amendable to personal jurisdiction, i.e., where it is formed or conducting business.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Still, other areas that are highlighted on the map, but aren’t spoken about as much in the study, could also have been amendable to both groups.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
2 Oct. 2024
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“Correctable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correctable. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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