definable

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We could say my whole life is a vacation, but I would tell you that the definable vacation that I really do take is that we spend the summer in Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

The Tennessee-born rock quartet had a rather definable turning point in its career upon the release of their third album, “Because of the Times.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

It is an agony with no single definable object giving rise to it.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

Does Boulez — and more broadly the Darmstadt School-era composers like Nono and Stockhausen, who shot to prominence in the 1950s — still have a definable influence on composition today, especially on young composers?

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023

He saw concern and something less easily definable in Hermione’s expression.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling