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But since grit isn’t weighable, McCormick made the case that Connelly wasn’t going to become unhinged in his next-to-last group Sunday pairing for the Open Championship with U.S.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 24, 2017

By August 1942, the Metallurgical Laboratory at Chicago had isolated a weighable amount.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rice: 1600lbs. avoirdupois, or 725 kilogrammes, and for all weighable articles, not specified, 2240lbs. avoirdupois, or 1016 kilogrammes.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

In this respect, too, we showed that laxity in proving what we wanted to prove which abounds everywhere from the point where calculation with things weighable and measurable leaves off, and judgment begins.

From The New Society by Windham, Arthur

By 'fictitious,' as we have seen, he means not 'unreal' but simply not tangible, weighable, or measurable—like sticks and stones, or like pains and pleasures.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir