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passable

[pas-uh-buhl, pah-suh-] / ˈpæs ə bəl, ˈpɑ sə- /




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Please do not assume a road will be passable just because it’s open.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

Nuzzi-Lizza is just consequential enough to be passable in polite discussion without really mattering all that much.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 6, 2025

Two sections, M’Clure Strait and Viscount Melville Sound, are only passable for two to five weeks, about a third of the season length 20 years ago, according to the researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2025

"Most roads are now passable so supplies are now coming in from the city. But immediate supplies like water and food, especially for the children are not yet available," he tells the BBC.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

Next year geologists may decide the ice-free corridor was passable, after all.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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