workable
adjective
work·able
ˈwər-kə-bəl 
1
: capable of being worked
a workable material
2
: practicable, feasible
a workable system
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Examples of workable in a Sentence
I think the plan is quite workable.
Chill the cookie dough until it is more workable.
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Much of Macron’s tenure overlapped with the presidency of Donald Trump, with whom the French leader sought to build a workable relationship, although Trump’s successor President Biden was more of a natural ally.
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Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
With the pressure of miles of ocean above them, these cell walls are held in a workable shape.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
But the first round of the French vote was also sufficiently undecided to offer up the alternative possibility that France's complex, two-round system could also leave no single bloc with a clear and workable majority.
—John Leicester, arkansasonline.com, 2 July 2024
Publicly, Biden remains the ringleader of the effort to block Trump, and no other Democrat has a workable plan to swap Biden for another.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 July 2024
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Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
With the pressure of miles of ocean above them, these cell walls are held in a workable shape.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
But the first round of the French vote was also sufficiently undecided to offer up the alternative possibility that France's complex, two-round system could also leave no single bloc with a clear and workable majority.
—John Leicester, arkansasonline.com, 2 July 2024
Publicly, Biden remains the ringleader of the effort to block Trump, and no other Democrat has a workable plan to swap Biden for another.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 July 2024
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workable
adjective
work·able
ˈwər-kə-bəl
1
: capable of being worked
2
: feasible
a workable solution to the problem
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