as in temperate
marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low
an area with an equable climate would be our first choice for a place in which to settle
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Recent Examples of equable
Wolcott is an equable type with cropped dark hair and a preference for business-casual attire, which in the Pacific Northwest qualifies as formal wear.
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
The elves with which the casual viewer or reader is familiar may be noble, equable creatures.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
The climate of the Pala valley is delightfully balmy and equable.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
Its colorful international cast of players and their equable manager, Carlo Ancelotti — returning after years to reverse the team’s fortunes — might easily have been invented in a Hollywood writers room.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
Where Haldane was a volatile, disruptive and unpredictable force, doing both great work and some considerable damage, full of bracing insights but sometimes ethically purblind, Mr. Subramanian is just, equable, generous and reliable in all his judgments.
—Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
The young world of aviation came away thinking that L.A. — with its basin of wide, flat places and equable weather — was indeed the place for aviation’s future.
—Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
He was simply bowled over by the beauty and the energy of the place, the broad-mindedness, the equable weather, the dramatic geography.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
The equable-nerd manner that colleagues once noted in Alito deserted him soon after Barack Obama became President.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
The elves with which the casual viewer or reader is familiar may be noble, equable creatures.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
The climate of the Pala valley is delightfully balmy and equable.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
Its colorful international cast of players and their equable manager, Carlo Ancelotti — returning after years to reverse the team’s fortunes — might easily have been invented in a Hollywood writers room.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
Where Haldane was a volatile, disruptive and unpredictable force, doing both great work and some considerable damage, full of bracing insights but sometimes ethically purblind, Mr. Subramanian is just, equable, generous and reliable in all his judgments.
—Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
The young world of aviation came away thinking that L.A. — with its basin of wide, flat places and equable weather — was indeed the place for aviation’s future.
—Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
He was simply bowled over by the beauty and the energy of the place, the broad-mindedness, the equable weather, the dramatic geography.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
The equable-nerd manner that colleagues once noted in Alito deserted him soon after Barack Obama became President.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
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“Equable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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