describable

Example Sentences

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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

“We started to walk around and it was extremely sad, it was not describable the devastation and the sound of the explosion,” he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 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