teachable

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Recent Examples of teachable But this robot is powered by a teachable AI neural network. Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025 The idea that leadership can be taught lies in the understanding that leadership style components can be broken down into teachable parts and refined through practice. Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 The lesson was clear: Technical skills are teachable; cultural fit isn’t. Sergii Malomuzh, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 The processes in your business need to be repeatable (and teachable), advises John Warrilow in his book Built to Sell. Lien De Pau, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for teachable
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Adjective
  • These prove out Fielder’s intuition that aviation safety depends on candid cockpit conversation, a particularly high-stakes—and, crucially, perhaps tractable—example of Fielder’s over-all preoccupation with the fear and anxiety that inhibits genuine communication.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
  • But tractable torque delivery of 324 lb-ft, which hits at 5,800 rpm, makes the process of revving and gearshifting an absolute pleasure.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This provides a broad yet manageable menu with options for everyone to try without feeling overwhelmed by choices.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2025
  • It’s filtered, watered down to a manageable proof (usually around 40% ABV), and sent out into the world ready to star in everything from a Bloody Mary to a Moscow Mule.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • The scale asks whether a respondent tends to prefer children who are obedient, well behaved and well mannered or children who are independent, creative and considerate.
    Adam Eichen, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
  • Those who tend to favor obedient children are scored as having more authoritarian views.
    Adam Eichen, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Large but docile eastern indigo snakes rule the forest floor, though their rosy cheeks and lustrous bodies are rarely seen.
    Elise Bennett, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2025
  • Moreover, the website adds that these animals are usually quite docile in nature and are generally not known to attack humans.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • But while the Internet is torn over whether Carpenter’s submissive position on the Man’s Best Friend cover is funny or degrading, Whoopi Goldberg was more concerned with something else.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 12 June 2025
  • By contrast, a beta is supposedly weak and submissive—a follower.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • From the sounds of it, the scenarios to watch are either a needle-moving free agent or a trade with a team that is successful in free agency and needs to move a player off the roster for cap reasons, becoming more amenable to taking back futures.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 29 June 2025
  • For such a waive-and-conversion move to work, Johnson would have to clear waivers and then be amenable to a two-way deal that would halve his salary.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Senate Parliamentarian upheld a provision in the bill prohibiting Medicaid funds from being used to reimburse health clinics that also provide elective abortions, saying that the measure was compliant with the Byrd Rule, which restricts what can be included in a budget reconciliation bill.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2025
  • Today’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, has proven to be far less compliant.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Some states are seeing relatively tame inflation, even now.
    Scott Cohn, CNBC, 11 July 2025
  • Amazon The Chi Volume Styler is a blow-dry brush that has a cool addition to it: a heated comb side to help style your hair and tame flyaways that could be caused by the hot hair blowing your hair around.
    Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 11 July 2025

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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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