palatable
adjective
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Palatable comes from palate, a word for the roof of the mouth, which itself comes from Latin palatum. The palate was once thought of as the seat of the sense of taste, so the word eventually came to mean "sense of taste," or broadly, "liking."
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Examples of palatable in a Sentence
Heather Chen, CNN, 9 July 2024
Advertisement While that steep of a pay cut is viewed as unlikely, the Lakers could shed salary elsewhere to close that gap to a more palatable level.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
Fortunately for them, this narrative turned out to be the only storyline palatable to Putin: the president’s fixation with Ukraine allowed the Russian security services an opportunity to obscure their failure to prevent the terrorist attack.
—Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2024
It’s become much, much more palatable and accepted in the mainstream.
—Simon Halls, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2024
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“Palatable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palatable. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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