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Recent Examples of survivable
Of central importance is developing survivable forces that would be more costly in time and money for an attacker to overcome than for a defender to build.
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Andrew S. Lim, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Read: Tragedy would unfold if Trump cancels Bush’s AIDS program
By the mid-1990s, antiretroviral cocktails made HIV a treatable and survivable disease in rich communities.
—John Green, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
And while new homes, following the latest, most stringent building codes, are indeed more survivable, the law of numbers says putting more people in predictably fire-prone zones guarantees greater risk.
—Max Taves, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Wright emphasized that part of the draw is not just to build a home that is survivable, but also one that is insurable.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
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Andrew S. Lim, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Read: Tragedy would unfold if Trump cancels Bush’s AIDS program
By the mid-1990s, antiretroviral cocktails made HIV a treatable and survivable disease in rich communities.
—John Green, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
And while new homes, following the latest, most stringent building codes, are indeed more survivable, the law of numbers says putting more people in predictably fire-prone zones guarantees greater risk.
—Max Taves, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Wright emphasized that part of the draw is not just to build a home that is survivable, but also one that is insurable.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for survivable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for survivable
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Josh Kraft will deliver a more livable and thriving city for all Bostonians.—
Chris Van Buskirk,
Boston Herald,
26 May 2025
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Its architects, planners and engineers aimed to create communities that were not only functional but also livable and beautiful.—
Eran Ben-Joseph,
The Conversation,
19 May 2025
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After much hesitation from the Jedi master to take on another pupil after Ben, Luke agrees to train Rey in the ways of the Force...at least while their growing tensions remain bearable.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
25 May 2025
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Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explores how to make work not just bearable, but meaningful.—
Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Normally maybe that would be a manageable level of discrepancy, but the high tariffs raising the stakes to such a great extent, this long-standing, but usually tolerable, friction between customs valuation and transfer pricing might become a lot more significant.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Perhaps, if the Dodgers weren’t facing the prospect of a tight division race in this year’s talented National League West, such problems would have been more tolerable.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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“Survivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/survivable. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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