targetable

adjective

tar·​get·​able ˈtär-gə-tə-bəl How to pronounce targetable (audio)
: capable of being aimed at a target
missiles with targetable warheads

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Non-Endemic Advertising This movement toward identifiable, targetable audiences has the power to attract product and service providers beyond the retailer’s own inventory. Hai Mag, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024 During the second half of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union chose to deploy multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, missiles loaded with several nuclear warheads. Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024 Anonymized usage data and other first-party signals can be fed into contextual solutions to improve the engine’s capabilities, extrapolating targetable audiences from a wealth of insights. Evgeny Popov, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 Some of these ICBMs carried large, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, which could fire a cluster of warheads at more than one target. Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 For example, most Americans have an Amazon Prime account, providing a large pool of targetable shoppers for brands to reach through retail media. Gary Drenik, Forbes, 4 May 2023 Patients without targetable mutations like EGFR or ALK in non-small cell lung cancer have faced long odds for a long time. Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 20 Apr. 2023 Omnicom Media Group, part of advertising-agency holding company Omnicom Group Inc., is increasing its podcast investment now partly because audiences continue to grow and partly because technology is making the ads more targetable and measurable, Ms. Sullivan said. Nat Ives, WSJ, 8 July 2020 This is especially true for anaplastic thyroid cancer, which has a poor prognosis but has targetable genetic alterations in about 40% of cases. Christine Coppa, Health, 15 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of targetable was in 1964

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“Targetable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/targetable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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