trainable

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Although cats are very trainable – they're very food motivated – cats usually train us more than we train them.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023

A: The rats have a comparable sense of smell, and they’re just as trainable as dogs.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 16, 2021

Traditionally deployed to hunt hare, the medium-sized hounds are trainable and great family pets if provided enough exercise, said Smiley, of Indio, California.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2019

In 1969 researchers Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published a book arguing that complex tasks would require multiple layers of perceptrons but that such networks might not be trainable.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

The business of the church school is still largely that of filling minds with theological data rather than training young, trainable lives to become religious schoolboys, religious voters, religious parents.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick