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

“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

As much as he loved to be the engineer in charge, Bloomberg also took the two-steps-forward-one-and-a-half-steps-back gains of the Giuliani years and recast the city’s image: from ungovernable to improvable.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2013

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

This witness, I should add, is strongly in favour of larger asylums for even curable cases, and would classify the institutions for the insane into three classes, the curable, the improvable, and the incurable.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack