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Recent Examples of knowable
The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper place.
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Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
At the same time, technological progress has vastly expanded the realm of the knowable.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
Security can be no more absolute than the future can be knowable. . . .
—Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2020
LLMs are inherently less reliable and less knowable than classical programming, and that worries a lot of people in the field.
—David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
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Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
At the same time, technological progress has vastly expanded the realm of the knowable.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
Security can be no more absolute than the future can be knowable. . . .
—Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2020
LLMs are inherently less reliable and less knowable than classical programming, and that worries a lot of people in the field.
—David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
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Someone must have reported this to the management of the Chinese Theatre at Wednesday night’s premiere, because half-way through the show the sound fell several thousand decibels to a more acceptable and intelligible level.Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
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Trump’s most intelligible proposals (extend the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 21%, and eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits) would cost some $6 trillion over 10 years, pushing the medium-term debt trajectory up another 10%.Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2024
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Meaningful Transparency Transparency must go beyond surface-level initiatives to create trust-building and comprehensible healthcare experiences.Rajeev Ronanki, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The culture shock is comprehensible given Porsche’s priority on function over form.Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
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Even with Klayman not meeting the $30,000 threshold, Delgado could have recognized jurisdiction if Klayman stated a cognizable claim.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2024
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Garbarino will be tasked with proving that the DHS leader has committed no less than high crimes and misdemeanors, a rather tall order given the total lack of evidence or even cognizable accusation that Mayorkas did anything improper, let alone remotely rising to this standard.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2024
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The center of attention is light as a hinge between new science and old religion — Christian, Jewish and Muslim — as manifest in around 100 Medieval art objects made in Western Europe.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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The non-specific prayer hints at an innate paganism, a murky complexity roiling beneath Ellen’s adolescent purity; that double nature is increasingly manifest in Depp’s performance as the plot advances.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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But for bitcoin investors who have seen a strong rise in the value of their investment, luxury goods — a designer handbag or high-end watch — are an obvious choice for diversifying one's portfolio, analysts say.Mimosa Spencer, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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One of the additions should be quite obvious to anybody following the Yankees' offseason closely.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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But the family caregivers in these groups were unambiguous: The most important thing government can do for them is to provide a cash benefit.Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Legal scholars across the ideological spectrum largely agree that the clause is unambiguous.Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
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Founders Briton Hadden and Henry Luce envisioned a magazine that would synthesize complex events into digestible narratives, ensuring accessibility for busy readers.Mark Howard, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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That anybody can generate such images provides a way to immediately express inchoate feelings about an inchoate world through an immediately digestible image.Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.Washington Post, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
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Conditions in the state the planes left behind them were far less perspicuous.The Economist, The Economist, 8 Feb. 2020
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“Knowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowable. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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