educable
Example Sentences
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Some faults are gifts: Mississippi’s educable lists sometimes include adult family members, perhaps because the person compiling the list didn’t understand what they were supposed to be doing.
From Washington Times
As we have suggested several times in the past, the problem is not that Mountain State children are less educable than their peers elsewhere.
From Washington Times
At a recent meeting of infectious-disease specialists in New Orleans, experts said many uninformed families are educable if pediatricians take the time to address their specific concerns.
From Washington Post
Suggested reading:Kurt Vonnegut, "Player Piano."I'm a long-time computer jock, designed and wrote educable specialized neural network...
From New York Times
Freud noted that around age 50, “the elasticity of the mental process on which treatment depends is, as a rule, lacking,” adding, “Old people are no longer educable.”
From New York Times
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