supportable

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The pain is supportable, and consists in the sensation of a prick produced in the passage of the needle through the skin.

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  1. adjective Bearable; endurable.

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  • That Air Force lawyers reviewed the policy and found it to be legally supportable is insulting.
  • It's a tremendous failure of political reporting that such patent spin from McCain supporters is being treated like a supportable position. —  Anonymous Is A Woman: Politics and Religion and Culture
  • Using years of experience in the field and the data available, whether from witnesses, recorded data and logs, physical evidence of blast effects, or the lack of such evidence, LGI personnel seek to form firm, supportable, impartial conclusions, as to the responsibility for claimed effects. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • A more practical and politically-supportable option might be to do something more along the lines of the —  Techdirt
  • Warms my heart to think that the message is finally getting across - there is NO supportable logic in a position that states that energy security is vital, protecting the climate is vital and economic development is vital, but please keep nuclear off the solutions list because we are not sure that we can keep costs under control or ensure that the by-products remain isolated from the environment for a million years. —  Atomic Insights Blog
 

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  1. = French supportable = Spanish soportable = Portuguese supportavel = Italian sopportabile; as support + -able.
 

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/səˈpoʊrtəbl/
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