ascertainable

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USA Rare Earth dismissed the charges in a rebuttal it filed in Texas court last week, saying the technology is “readily ascertainable via independent development, reverse engineering, and/or other proper means.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

However, Zeleznikow-Johnston disagrees with that definition because he feels it is a “first person subjective definition” of consciousness, rather than one sufficiently detached to be ascertainable by a theoretical third party.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

First of all, Habba acts as if the wool was pulled over her eyes, but this fact was easily ascertainable through a quick Google search.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2024

Because the law defines neither “instruction” nor “human sexuality,” the complaint also contends, those terms “are impossibly vague and lack any ascertainable standards for determining whether or not the law has been violated.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Thirteen witnesses declare that they have heard musical pieces well played upon instruments not manipulated by any ascertainable agency.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille