improvable

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How athletes translate mere physicality into phenomenal performance and tremendous plasticity — how they are so astoundingly improvable — is a beautiful mystery of temporal processing.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

“Adams was not inclined to believe mankind improvable, but was certain it was important that human nature be understood.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

“All the techniques are very crude at present but they're all improvable, and the data science is only getting better.”

From Nature • Oct. 30, 2016

Now let’s make a big, improvable, subjective truth claim: “Woman” has a more interesting range of inventory, aesthetically speaking, in its room than “man” does.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013

Wherever possible, the training suitable for various improvable types of children should be arranged in connection with the ordinary public schools.

From Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders