teachable

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Recent Examples of teachable The ethos of the approach is that the actual skills required to do a job are often teachable—easily within the first six weeks of a job—and that a college degree bears shockingly little relevance to technical ability. Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024 The reality is that a first-rate decision-making process is both teachable and learnable. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023 The fact that Elemental can’t seem to get past its own elevator-pitch premise or avoid tripping over its teachable lessons, much less wring laughs and sobs from an opposites-attract love story, is a bit of a shock. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023 The teachable lesson here is disrupt. Marcus Jones, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for teachable 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachable
Adjective
  • This should make the engine more tractable throughout the rev range, and that’s not taking into consideration an optional race exhaust setup—for track use only, nudge nudge—that bumps those figures up to 126 horsepower and 73 lb-ft of torque, while shaving another 10 pounds.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • LLMs are much less tractable, much less reliable black boxes.
    Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Small, manageable actions that can be completed in minutes.
    Shira Gill, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Fractional Ownership and Broader Access: Tokenization breaks down investment barriers by allowing fractional ownership, meaning smaller, more manageable investments.
    Alexandra Andhov, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Feeding into Milioti’s volatile performance, her costumes chart a journey from obedient heiress to homicidal mob boss, culminating in her violent retribution against Oz in the show’s penultimate episode.
    Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Even so, our exercises did not suggest that any authoritarian would command a uniformly obedient federal workforce.
    Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
Adjective
  • Later, the film’s producers refused to grant the movie’s art and name to the paperback version of the book — as is customary, theoretically enhancing the promotion of both properties — which incensed the usually docile Mezrich.
    Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The paintings, yes, thwart the racist stereotype that Asian women are meek and docile, but that’s not a statement Ba is trying to make.
    Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Tops don’t have to be hard, masc, and tall — and bottoms don’t have to be submissive, small, or fem!
    María Saldana, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Or would restrictions effectively declare Asians and Hispanics to be undesirables, forcing them to endure a painful, submissive half assimilation into a white mainstream that would never quite accept them?
    Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
Adjective
  • Don’t force dress-up Some pets are amenable to a little dress-up and may do just fine strutting in costume.
    Julia Lamont, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Despite hiring Scott Boras last year, Alonso might be amenable to acknowledging these concerns and giving the Mets something resembling a hometown discount.
    Jerry Beach, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • By avoiding fines and penalties and staying ahead as a compliant finance expert, leaders can ensure regulatory adherence and maintain industry credibility.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The Browns further maintain that even if their constitutional arguments fall short, they should be deemed compliant with the Modell law.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The tame styling paired well with an efficient yet enjoyable powertrain, and just the right amount of interior tech and luxury for the pricing.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • And for a show that started on the relatively tame confines of network TV?
    Trent Moore, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2024

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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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