tameable
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And he was saying, ‘Well, raccoons are tameable, but they’re still very wild.’
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2017
Pretending our instincts are entirely tameable and explicable reduces the scope of human experience.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2017
There are a dozen or so tameable creatures, ranging from small badgers and wolves to giant bears and saber tooth cats, and once tamed, they’ll stick by your side for as long as you want.
From The Verge • Feb. 25, 2016
How does the presence of few tameable animals in the New World help to account for its tardier development as compared with the Old World?
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
Are there any animals, wild or domestic, tameable or untameable, in America, which are of a species known to exist at this day in Tartary?
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by Jones, James Athearn
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