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Recent Examples of knowable
Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
Test-time compute is so successful for quantitative problems because all verifiers hinge on the existence of a knowable, correct answer (or at least an objective basis for comparing two options), Bertsch says.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
This is particularly important because much strategic planning and subsequent implementation lacks deliberation and doesn’t do a good job of addressing knowable risks, Conchie notes.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
The dead are less knowable than the living, perhaps, but easier to pin down.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
Test-time compute is so successful for quantitative problems because all verifiers hinge on the existence of a knowable, correct answer (or at least an objective basis for comparing two options), Bertsch says.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
This is particularly important because much strategic planning and subsequent implementation lacks deliberation and doesn’t do a good job of addressing knowable risks, Conchie notes.
—Liz Kislik, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
The dead are less knowable than the living, perhaps, but easier to pin down.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowable
Adjective
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Clear, intelligible, physical consequences for success or failure in combat are crucial to building effective battle sequences, and Wheel comfortably passes that test this week.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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For patients to benefit fully from AI, there must be clear and comprehensible explanations of how these systems work and how they are evaluated.—
Rob El Kareh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Given the stakes for reproductive autonomy, Donegan’s reservations are entirely comprehensible.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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 potential this represents for businesses is manifest—those that adapt to a borderless talent economy will gain access to the best minds, the most dynamic markets and the newest investment opportunities.—
Bernardo Saraiva,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The capitulation to Trump was manifest in Senate Republican’s refusal to block any of the president’s cast of unqualified and dangerous nominees to serve in senior cabinet positions.—
Mordechai Gordon,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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Entertainment Fans of the show on social media seem to be missing a lot of crucial character development, and there’s an obvious explanation why.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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In its wildest moments, Coogler’s film seems like a collision of Lovecraft Country with True Blood, though more obvious comparisons will likely be drawn to From Dusk Till Dawn.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Reporting indicates that Iran’s objectives in these talks are unambiguous.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Apr. 2025
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His message was unambiguous: AI should augment, not replace, the scientific process.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The digestible nature of her content is not to be remiss.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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One study showed that digestible starch increased glucose levels more than resistant starch.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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 23 Apr. 2025.
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