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as in justifiable
capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack
a line of argument that is probably not sustainable in a public forum against skilled debaters
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as in verifiable
capable of being proven as true or real
has no sustainable claim to the property without a deed or some other document
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as in endurable
capable of being endured
the general didn't think that such heavy casualties could be sustainable for much longer
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Recent Examples of sustainable
Other winners of the year are textile designer Daniel Henry, named professional of the year; sustainable fashion workshop RE Antwerp, founded by designer Tim Van Steenbergen and journalist Ruth Goossens, as changemaker of the year, and La Cambre’s Célestin Verheyden as most promising graduate.
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 28 Nov. 2024
Brands can combat environmental damage by embracing sustainable innovation.
—Matthew Emma, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port, has led various initiatives to promote sustainable shipping.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
Give the gift of effortless travel and sustainable style this holiday season.
—New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2024
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 28 Nov. 2024
Brands can combat environmental damage by embracing sustainable innovation.
—Matthew Emma, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port, has led various initiatives to promote sustainable shipping.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
Give the gift of effortless travel and sustainable style this holiday season.
—New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2024
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Philadelphia doesn't include all deaths in its homicide tally, such as justifiable killings (four this year) and suicides, Werner says.Russell Contreras, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
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Others may instead look at it as the pilots having a very justifiable reason to distrust airline management, having lost years’ of gains in the past when contracts were ripped up during airline bankruptcies.Brian Foley, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2024
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Across the country, 97% of voters will cast ballots in jurisdictions that provide verifiable paper backups, Easterly said.Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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But for the past few weeks, it's made being trapped on the couch much more endurable, and even enjoyable, for me and my family.Adrienne So, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2020
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But Russo understands the appeal, even the necessity, of those absurd affections that exceed all reason and make the travails of human life endurable.Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
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Given the demonstrable shot in the arm that out-of-home deliveries have given the holiday games since 2020, when Nielsen began blending those impressions with its vanilla TV data, Fox needn’t overly concern itself about losing ground this year.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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There’s also the implication—or rather the demonstrable truth—that A could be anyone, of any age.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 June 2024
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Her research focuses on empirical operations management, supply chain management and industrial organization.Susan F. Lu, Run Ge, Wenzheng Mao, Harvard Business Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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The two results this year are among the first empirical tests to show that a debate between LLMs can work when it is judged by another, less informed model.Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Sustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sustainable. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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