trainable

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Although cats are very trainable – they're very food motivated – cats usually train us more than we train them.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023

“They were highly trainable with peanuts,” he said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022

We often don’t think about our mind being trainable, but it’s as trainable as our body.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2022

“They’re very perceptive, and they have a subtle quality” and are very trainable, but need things to do, said Kim Seiter, an Oak Ridge, New Jersey, dog agility trainer who has four of them.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2022

The business of the church school is still largely that of filling minds with theological data rather than training young, trainable lives to become religious schoolboys, religious voters, religious parents.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick