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salvable

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvable
Adjective
  • How much of the damage is reparable is not yet clear.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
  • Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Earlier this year, repairable computer maker Framework released a laptop that can support a RISC-V mainboard, bringing open-source architecture to the masses—or at least, developers and early adopters interested in straying from mainstream closed architectures.
    Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
  • These scientific advances have made devices more durable, repairable and recyclable.
    Suvrat Dhanorkar, The Conversation, 10 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • In some cases, this exaggeration can lead salvageable relationships to divorce.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • You’d be forgiven for thinking that the show surrounding it might be salvageable.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The team’s approach involved applying pulses at specific times to make counter-rotating errors consistent and correctable.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • For instance, some denials could stem from easily correctable errors if the parents knew of those errors, such as unreadable dental scans or wording from the orthodontist's office that didn't fully explain the medical necessity.
    Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Considering how fraught things turned through the spring, some will wonder what’s rectifiable.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • If any air gets trapped in the pump, this is easily rectifiable by utilizing the unit’s air release valve.
    Kat de Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Johnson wrote in a letter in the filing to the Illinois review board that Hoover is repentant and has the potential and the desire to live the rest of his life as a force for good in his community.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Perry had been reluctant to engage with recovery groups in the past, which are often structured around repentant confessions.
    Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The good news is that chocolate stains are fixable.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
  • And its biggest drawback is easily fixable.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • It is flanked on all sides by footlong rulers (emblazoned, like the yardsticks, with an assortment of penitent phrases including YES, SISTER and NO, SISTER) marking the hours.
    Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • When in the presence of God, one is meant to assume a penitent air.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
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“Salvable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salvable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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