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Able to be accomplished. Also: Usable.

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Usage examples (38)
  • It did not seem practicable to go to the store in that short amount of time.
  • Order and privilege are condemned; total democracy, as direct as practicable, is the professed radical ideal.
  • Atlantic unity, with bonds as loose as we have them, as tight as may be practicable, is a safer bet than European union.
  • In the case of the King, the only amends practicable is the restoration of the Ministers possessing the confidence of the country.
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