as in repairable
capable of being corrected
a racehorse with some minor, correctable faults
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Adjective
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Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.—
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Jan. 2025 -
If hazards stop being rare, stop being predictable, and/or produce damages that aren’t easily reparable (or suggest that a building should not be rebuilt in that location), the existing market structures for both property insurance and property more broadly won’t work.—
Alena Botros,
Fortune,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.—
Vincent Blocker,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2023
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Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
26 Apr. 2022
Adjective
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Each placemat is fully reversible, with a light blue and sage green plaid pattern on one side, and an adorable design with flowers, strawberries, green stems, and little bunnies on the other.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
19 Feb. 2025
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Because mistakes can be made, ACH transactions are reversible in cases where there was a clear clerical error, like when the wrong account was credited, for instance, or a single transaction was inadvertently duplicated.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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What this means is that a smart creditor will immediately seek to register the charging order as a sister-state order in a jurisdiction where the LLC is amendable to personal jurisdiction, i.e., where it is formed or conducting business.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Still, other areas that are highlighted on the map, but aren’t spoken about as much in the study, could also have been amendable to both groups.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
2 Oct. 2024
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“Correctable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correctable. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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