bearable
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You may personally find some of them terrible, but most are bearable and all are virtually inevitable.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
There has also been a surge of online advice on how to make time in shelters more bearable.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
On his decision to confess, he said he prayed the consequences would be "bearable to the people who I've said sorry to" and that his justice in the law would be "deserved".
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
The pressures of life, which in that moment felt unbearable, proved bearable.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025
It’s what they deserve, they joke, for having listened to their mothers, and for getting together in the first place, and the fact that they are united in their resignation makes the consequences somewhat bearable.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing bearable
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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