knowable

adjective

know·able ˈnō-ə-bəl

: capable of being known : able to be determined or understood

This year, California votes March 3, and whether it offers a delegate haul for one candidate or a scramble between several candidates is not yet knowable.—

David Weigel

At the end of any year, a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease, and another number won't have.—

Jeffrey Kluger and Alice Park

A smear of orange tells everything knowable about light when it collides with the bottom of a copper pot.—

Peter Schjedlahl

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The dead are less knowable than the living, perhaps, but easier to pin down. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024 The answers to these and other historical mysteries are likely knowable—but they are locked in presidential libraries and government archives and inaccessible to researchers. —

William Burr, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2019 The relationship between Biden and Harris is not easily knowable, no matter what the leaks suggest. —

Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024 The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper place. —

Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for knowable