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bankable

[bang-kuh-buhl] / ˈbæŋ kə bəl /


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I’m bored of studios and indie financiers forcing filmmakers to stick to so-called bankable names.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Spending on shade, ventilation and cooler hospitals and homes all produce little in the way of bankable returns - even if it reduces costs of climate change long term.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Stalin is being challenged by C. Joseph Vijay, 51, one of India's most bankable actors, especially in Tamil regions.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Studio executives and theater operators chalk up the improved prospects to several factors, including a better and more plentiful crop of bankable movies that are giving consumers more reason to trek to the multiplex.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various




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