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  • adjective Capable of being taken.

Etymologies

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take +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Hence such things were called takeable and their contraries untakeable.

    Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Steve Carrell and the Rock can do no wrong anyway, but even Anne Hathaway - whom I can usually take or leave - looks very, very takeable here.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Michael May 2008

  • Steve Carrell and the Rock can do no wrong anyway, but even Anne Hathaway - whom I can usually take or leave - looks very, very takeable here.

    What Looks Good?: June Theatrical Releases Michael May 2008

  • So, if CLA comes from rumens with bacteria X, can we make an artificial one, and use it to crank CLA that is just right, and takeable in supplement form?

    Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and breast milk | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • Being joined by a party of St.ckbridge Indians we were again landed, and after marching for some days came to a road where we recoinnoitered St. John's Fort but did not attack it, Rogers judging it not to be takeable with our force.

    Crooked Trails Frederic Remington 1885

  • The most effective methods would be not overt military operations, except perhaps in rare instances, but establishing decent intelligence, alliances with tribal leaders who have no interest in seeing radical jihadists run their territory, and perhaps the occasional special forces operation when intelligence identifies a takeable target.

    Antiwar.com Original 2009

  • The Department of Culture Arts and Leisure has stocked the following Public Angling Estate fisheries with takeable fish from Movanagher Fish Farm:

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

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