appreciable

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“It would surprise me if we didn’t have some appreciable employment loss,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Prerelease versions of 4o that were heavily trained with user signals didn’t show much appreciable improvement on internal evaluations of capabilities on things like science or reasoning, according to people who worked on the model.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

However, any frustration South Africa may have felt gave way to a sense of what might be possible in more appreciable conditions for batting after they were set a target of 282 for victory.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2025

Under these circumstances, and as the current representative of religious horror, the relevance of its plot is appreciable.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2025

It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson