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expressible

American  
[ik-spres-uh-buhl] / ɪkˈsprɛs ə bəl /

adjective

  1. able to be expressed, such as in words or actions.


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Ramanujan immediately contradicted his friend: “It is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

From Scientific American Mar. 3, 2023

The way the world works will once again be expressible in words.

From New York Times Jun. 25, 2020

As Lessig writes, “Their meaning comes not from the content of what they say; it comes from the reference, which is expressible only if it is the original that gets used.”

From Salon Mar. 1, 2019

That inner aesthete also was instinctively in sympathy with Wesley Morris’ New York Times Magazine feature about criticism, activism, the dynamics of “cancel” culture, and what kinds of aesthetic reactions are expressible by whom nowadays.

From Slate Dec. 26, 2018

It is that which arises out of the use or fancy of tangible signs to set forth an otherwise less expressible truth; including nearly the whole range of symbolical and allegorical art and poetry.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

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