Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a practicable manner; with action or performance.
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- adverb In a
practicable manner.
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- adverb in a practicable manner; so as to be feasible
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Examples
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Synthetic rubber of equal quality still cannot be practicably manufactured.
The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011
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"The LSE will work in partnership with customers to agree a date as early and practicably as possible in 2011 to reschedule the main market migration," the exchange said.
Turquoise trading shutdown may have been sabotage, LSE says Jill Treanor 2010
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Second, the insurance can only practicably be attached to bonds newly issued by governments—the so-called primary market.
EU Pushes Scenarios for Euro Bond Stephen Fidler 2011
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Only a fraction of this groundwater, however, can be practicably tapped and made available on a perennial basis through wells and springs.
Groundwater 2010
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In other words, the definition of broadband must comprise services that can practicably be deployed in unserved and underserved areas -- and must comprise services that today's unserved Americans can and will actually adopt.
Art Brodsky: Connecting the Dots -- How Big Telecom Will Try to Squash Our Fast-Internet Future 2009
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On the contrary, they can see that Iran is such a vast territory with such a large population that even Israels alleged arsenal of "hundreds" of nuclear weapons could be quite practicably shrugged off.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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They did not have to preclude in-state plaintiffs from bringing federal question claims, because British merchants could not practicably assign their claims to in-state plaintiffs.
Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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They need to be practicably possible given the limitations of the human condition.
Original Position Freeman, Samuel 2008
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However, Qatar, on the other side of the Persian Gulf, cannot practicably sell its gas via pipeline.
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If coring ice, the ice is the solid, then what substance is liquid at 0 deg C? that is practicably manageable?
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