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savable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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savable .
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- adjective Alternative form of
savable .
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Examples
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More than 1,000 "saveable" lives are lost needlessly each year in the nation's biggest cities because of inefficiencies in the cities 'emergency medical systems, USA TODAY's investigation found, and at the root of these inefficiencies in many cases is the simple matter of counting seconds.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Mollie gave me 30 minutes. 30 minutes to find the cards out of 600 that I would designate as 'saveable'.
ChicagoNow 2010
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And that doesn’t even take into account all the saveable American dollars going down the tubes in Afghanistan -- a recent report from the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction suggested it adds up to $12 billion for the Afghan Army alone -- in graft, corruption, and pure incompetence.
Tom Engelhardt: Cutting $100 Billion?... Easy -- If Only Washington Had a Brain Tom Engelhardt 2011
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Recent opinion polls certainly show a considerable narrowing of the gap that suggests a great many of those Labour seats may be saveable.
Under Fire Tories Running Out of Time Iain Martin 2010
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It says more active tactics to fight fires will be "confined to the saving of saveable life".
Firefighters call off strike planned for bonfire night David Batty 2010
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Saves trees, saves expensive toner, and I get my yea or nay back in a timely, organized, saveable, trackable fashion.
My inbox is empty, please reject my story...(kidding!) wendigomountain 2008
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He wasn't in the category of the most saveable, so his death was not shocking.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Yet nationwide, emergency medical systems save only a small fraction of saveable victims, and rates vary widely from city to city.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Seattle saves 45% of saveable victims like Rusinek;
USATODAY.com 2005
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Washington can't even say for sure how many of its most saveable victims it saves, a USA TODAY investigation shows.
USATODAY.com 2005
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