describable

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“The tragedy of our poor wounded here in America is not describable without shedding tears, and those left behind with the enemy have no aid.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

Rauch is determined to be an optimist about his one large idea: that an established scientific method reliant on discernible facts and describable methodology can still produce consensus among opinion-shapers and elites on fundamental issues.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

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