Example Sentences

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How athletes translate mere physicality into phenomenal performance and tremendous plasticity — how they are so astoundingly improvable — is a beautiful mystery of temporal processing.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

“Adams was not inclined to believe mankind improvable, but was certain it was important that human nature be understood.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

“All the techniques are very crude at present but they're all improvable, and the data science is only getting better.”

From Nature • Oct. 30, 2016

Now let’s make a big, improvable, subjective truth claim: “Woman” has a more interesting range of inventory, aesthetically speaking, in its room than “man” does.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013

But to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalizations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another.

From Utilitarianism by Mill, John Stuart