describable

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I was happy, however, to see Terence Nance, whose great surrealist-operatic HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness” is describable only at length, included.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

Looking back, I was seeking my own instruction: I wanted to challenge myself to expand the field of the describable.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Pauli, in an attempt to explain the structure of atomic spectra and the periodic table, had recently postulated that electrons had a “two-valuedness not describable classically.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2022

“The tragedy of our poor wounded here in America is not describable without shedding tears, and those left behind with the enemy have no aid.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos