Example Sentences

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“Finite minds, fallible minds, revisable claims…” West said, and both men chuckled.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2012

We have, for the most part, avoided the brutal homogeneities of the concentration camp and the instant orthodoxies that are revisable at the death of a Mao.

From Time Magazine Archive

Protestant confessions of faith are always conditioned in time, and can never be definitive; they are always revisable, consequently they are always liable to criticism and to reform.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

The terms of this tariff were to be revisable after the lapse of ten years.

From A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Haines, Charles Reginald