passable
Example Sentences
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In a world where digital optimization can make just about anyone sound passable on the microphone, a pop singer with personality whose voice actually communicates stands out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
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
Don’t just throw together something passable to "get through dinner."
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025
When the only possible means of survival for a minority government is to build bridges on left and right, Bayrou has the advantage of having passable relations with both sides.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024
Next year geologists may decide the ice-free corridor was passable, after all.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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