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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachableness
Noun
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Instead, the new Trump administration is engineering what some feel could be described only as ideological obedience.—
Karen Hao,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2025 -
Mixed breeds are also welcome at the agility and obedience contests being held at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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In the early 1900s, there was a rise in Black Nationalist organizations that refused to cower in the face of KKK violence or submit to societal subordination.—
Kimberly Fain,
JSTOR Daily,
5 July 2017
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Now, the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has maintained that the bilateral relationship should be based on cooperation and not subordination, is obliged to treat the issue of migration and drug trafficking with caution.—
Anna Lagos,
WIRED,
24 Jan. 2025
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By 2020, many tech companies acted like arms of the ruling class, enforcing speech codes on racial matters and urging public conformity to expert opinion on the pandemic.—
The Editors,
National Review,
13 Feb. 2025
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The best part of the sketch isn’t its sly picture of Gen X’s slow fade into conformity, but Jason Sudeikis as the groom’s father who is unironically into the performance.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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Picture show Claire Thomas A nonprofit publication called Rest of World received almost 230 submissions from 45 countries for its annual photo contest, which asked entrants to show the impact of technology in their communities.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2025
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The submissions also include joking, off-topic, threatening and even racist messages.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Whether the current American president has become a king, particularly after the sweeping grant of immunity in 2024 by the Supreme Court and the seeming acquiescence by Congress to Trump’s latest directives, remains up for debate.—
Claire B. Wofford,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Empowered by this legislative acquiescence, Trump has now decided to put a freeze on all federal aid that does not fit with his agenda.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Black women frequently overachieve just to receive a fraction of the recognition and are often expected to balance confidence with humility.—
Lyric Christian,
Essence,
27 Feb. 2025
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Luka did not have Dirk’s sense of humor, or a level of humility that endeared him to the world.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Feb. 2025
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Most disconcerting is the meekness of Washington’s supposedly stalwart European allies.—
Raphael Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Nov. 2014
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But to see Bass as a kumbaya leader — or to mistake her softness for meekness — is to fundamentally misunderstand her.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2024
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Ukraine is unlikely to accept any peace agreement based on the Istanbul negotiations as such terms are effectively a full Ukrainian surrender to Russia's long-term war goals.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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But peace can’t be a surrender for the Ukrainians who have not lost on the battlefield, but have courageously under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held off the Russians for three years of hard fighting.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Teachableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachableness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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