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Pauli, in an attempt to explain the structure of atomic spectra and the periodic table, had recently postulated that electrons had a “two-valuedness not describable classically.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2022

Of their children, only my cousins Butchie and Kyle are describable as mustache men.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

“We started to walk around and it was extremely sad, it was not describable the devastation and the sound of the explosion,” he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2020

Those injuries and related damages are readily apparent and describable.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2018

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos