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The highly communicable virus had already become common in the colonies, and densely populated port cities like Boston, Philadelphia and New York periodically saw concentrated outbreaks, usually triggered by the arrival of infected passengers or goods like clothing.—
Adam Cohen,
Oklahoman,
17 Mar. 2026 -
The most fundamental consequences of being struck by lightning are often metaphysical, and not easily communicable.—
Jacob Stern,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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Joe’s Stone Crab is as definable of the Miami Beach essence as the city’s distinctive Art Deco along Ocean Drive, its beaches and the Fontainebleau hotel.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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For once it had been achieved in the deserts of West Asia, so the very notion of wind as a linguistically definable entity took off everywhere.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Speakable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakable. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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