ponderable
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Ethereal title cards present large, infinitely ponderable questions such as “Do You Believe In Heaven?” and “Is There Love In Heaven?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
More readily ponderable is a lovely shot, made in Israel, of Bedouin olive pickers asleep under blankets on rugged ground at dawn, with the long, low expanse of a prison in the background.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019
Among his culminating conceptions: "Force constitutes matter."�"A lump of ponderable matter imposes a strain upon the place in which it exists, and this strain extends throughout space to infinity."
From Time Magazine Archive
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What the Sheff boys ostensibly got was a dose of Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Imponderables are ponderable, but answerable, no. Ask a philosopher, but be cautious. If you hear, ‘Eureka!,’ if you think, ‘His answer has captured my question!,’ then here is proof he is a counterfeit.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.