placable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for placable
Adjective
  • The performances were too amiable and not particularly satirical (much like the real-life Harris’s own appearance on the show).
    Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • There's a little sprinkled throughout, but these all-stars are by and large gracious and amiable.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The weekend meeting will offer one of the first signals of whether the two sides see a mutually agreeable way forward.
    Colin Meyn, The Hill, 9 May 2025
  • Hollywood’s effect on NASCAR is positive NASCAR has been historically agreeable with Hollywood when the creative types want to make a movie.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Simone is the dutiful personal assistant for an ultra-wealthy socialite named Michaela (Julianne Moore), whom Devon thinks might also be a murderous cult leader.
    William Earl, Variety, 22 May 2025
  • But by the finale of Season 2, dutiful dot-connecting takes over.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Related Articles Until now exhibitions culminated in Saint Laurent’s studio on the upper floor of the museum, obliging visitors to backtrack toward the exit.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
  • To be sure, China may never become the kind of country many Western optimists imagined in the early post–Cold War decades: a gradually more liberal and obliging member of the U.S.-led international order.
    RANA MITTER, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Where Chelsea’s domestic overseers have been largely acquiescent to their accounting ingenuity, the same can’t be said abroad.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Netanyahu appears convinced that his country’s security, along with his own political survival, depends on prolonging the military offensives and keeping both Gaza and Lebanon ungovernable, and therefore acquiescent.
    Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • According to Mississippi State University Extension, lambs weigh between 8 and 12 pounds and are more docile than their older counterparts.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Peasants have often been seen as docile and passive.
    Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Lord John and Claire check up on Henry (Harry Jarvis), who is doing very well, thanks to Mercy’s (Gloria Obianyo) duteous care.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The administrator in him favors the long view; the duteous building of a team over the course of years.
    John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017
Adjective
  • According to the new framing, Russia’s real fight is against the mighty United States, which wants to destroy it, while Ukraine—just like the European Union and NATO—is merely an obedient U.S. satellite.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2023
  • The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Placable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placable. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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