articulable

adjective

ar·​tic·​u·​la·​ble är-ˈti-kyə-lə-bəl 

: capable of being articulated

Examples of articulable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Walther, who described himself as a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, emphasized to the crowd that Arizonans needed a strong, articulable explanation for the use of self-defense. —The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024

The government has presented no articulable facts to support these assertions. —Alexander Smith, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023

The standard for initiating a criminal investigation is a modest one, requiring only articulable facts reasonably indicating a crime has occurred; at this point, more than enough evidence of each of these crimes has been publicly revealed to justify a full federal investigation. —Jennifer Rodgers, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021

Target licensees are often skeptical when a licensing program lacks an articulable rationale for a demand. —John Quinn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023

This constitutes a specifically articulable threat. —Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022

From alternative energy to housing, there's a readily-articulable and substantively important deregulatory agenda that is not unfriendly to Republican interest groups and is responsive to the most important issues in voters' minds. —Noah Millman, The Week, 18 Mar. 2022

But the Supreme Court in a 1976 decision gave the agency broad authority to select cars for inspection at checkpoints without any articulable reason. —Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021

Losing some of that music has felt like severing lines of communication with versions of my former self, in the sense that hearing even a snippet of an old song can conjure up a first kiss, a first drive, or less articulable memories of inner life. —Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 19 July 2021

Word History

Etymology

articul(ate) entry 2 + -able

First Known Use

1796, in the meaning defined above

Legal Definition

articulable

adjective

ar·​tic·​u·​la·​ble är-ˈti-kyə-lə-bəl 

: capable of being expressed, explained, or justified

police had observed drug sale and stopped defendant on articulable reasonable suspicion that he was dealing drugs

—National Law Journal