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Recent Examples of teachable
These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
That makes performance testable and the discipline teachable, both of which are the hallmarks of genuine management science.
—Pawan Anand, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Is a love of art and a willingness to give your life over to art teachable?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
But this robot is powered by a teachable AI neural network.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
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Smaller dogs – those under 20 lb (9 kg) – were reported as more fearful, more aggressive, and more attention-seeking, but less trainable than larger dogs.—
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Someone who is coachable and trainable.—
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Carruthers was by far the more amiable of the two, striving to seem tractable and reasonable while nevertheless lying flamboyantly.—
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The research team developed a route-planning system for Astrobee, the ISS’s robotic assistant, that leverages sequential convex programming—a method that decomposes complex trajectory planning into smaller, tractable steps while guaranteeing safety and feasibility.—
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Built for demanding factory environments Atlas is a fully electric humanoid robot with 56 degrees of freedom, meaning 56 independently controllable joints that allow fluid, human-like motion.—
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Only one team will win the Bellinger sweepstakes, but in theory, both the Yankees and Mets could benefit from the Marlins’ stable of controllable arms.—
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This redundancy ensures that the aircraft remains manageable even during a partial system failure.—
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The Chargers need to be effective on third down — need to stay in third-and-manageable — to keep drives alive and keep that Patriots defense on the field.—
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The generals reduced even their limited need for an obedient prime minister.—
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Since Francoism promoted an image of women as obedient wives and self-sacrificing mothers devoted to the Catholic family model, Republican women were demonized as immoral, dangerous and unworthy of motherhood.—
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To be clear, there is no sense that Rondón and Ugás are defending the old guard or suggesting that a docile, starving population pinioned under the grip of a dictatorship is big-picture preferable to a rebellious insurgency.—
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At this point of the pregnancy, cat moms are also very friendly and often more docile than usual.—
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In the dark romantic comedy-drama, True Blood alum Skarsgård, 49, plays tough biker Ray, who enters into a dominant-submissive relationship with Colin (Melling), a shy and directionless man who sings in a barbershop quartet.—
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Usually, guys with power like to be submissive and are bottoms.—
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During voir dire, anyone who’s against capital punishment is excused from serving; the law demands that jurors remain amenable to all potential sentences.—
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American Idol has always been a family-friendly staple in the reality-TV world, equally amenable to grandparents and children, but its days as part of the pop-zeitgeist machine are long gone.—
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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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