identifiable
Americanadjective
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Explanation
If something is identifiable, it means you can identify it — or know what it is. Put your name in your jacket so it is identifiable as yours. Identifiable can also mean known — if you're trying to solve the energy crisis, you should come up with a plan that maximizes the all identifiable uses of alternative energy. If you have feelings that other can relate to, you are identifiable — people feel that they know you. If you wear a cross around your neck, that is communicating your identity — making you identifiable as a Christian.
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It allocated $55 billion to goodwill, representing the difference between the purchase price and the CNN owner’s net identifiable assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He’s none of the easily identifiable tropes placed upon Black people.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Both POWs were identifiable, as they had been photographed by South Korean media before their arrival in the South.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
There were no identifiable pictures of Yaxley-Lennon's children published by the Daily Mail or in the Mail Online, jurors were told.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Indeed, armed with microscopes, cell biologists had become accustomed to a cellular world in which visible structures performed identifiable functions within cells.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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