passable
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Please do not assume a road will be passable just because it’s open.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
When anyone can draft a passable paragraph or storyboard an idea, exceptional talent becomes more apparent than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Two sections, M’Clure Strait and Viscount Melville Sound, are only passable for two to five weeks, about a third of the season length 20 years ago, according to the researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
England's schedule is mapped out until the end of the home summer in 2027, when Root would be 36 – still a perfectly passable age for a Test batter.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025
He was so thin, said one observer, that his hips could have made a passable hat rack, but he refused to eat.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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