describable
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I was happy, however, to see Terence Nance, whose great surrealist-operatic HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness” is describable only at length, included.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
Looking back, I was seeking my own instruction: I wanted to challenge myself to expand the field of the describable.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023
Of their children, only my cousins Butchie and Kyle are describable as mustache men.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020
But here we are in a readily describable, purely mathematical domain.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2020
Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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