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Meanings of teachable in English

Ready and willing to be taught.

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Examples for "docile"
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What the financiers and industrial managers most want is efficient, docile labor.
Creative Impulse in Industry: A Proposition for Educators
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In the docile souls of the early sanctified, its task is easy.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
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David Brody brought a live Mexican tarantula which he said was docile.
The new yorker
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I am the most docile of men and the easiest of invalids.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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However, he tolerates little dissent and his party controls the docile legislature.
Reuters
Usage of teachable in English
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So I decided it was a good time for a teachable moment.
Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
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Mistakes, accidents, teachable moments-thisis how children learn in the physical world.
Wired
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Gold's crash this weekend is, as Oprah might say, a teachable moment.
The Guardian
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A humble, teachable mind marks those in whom the Holy Spirit dwells.
When the Holy Ghost is Come
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I learnt some, too, from Chambers; but was not so teachable then.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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Operations become arts when their purpose is conscious and their method teachable.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
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The wonderful little secret about creativity is that it is eminently teachable.
BBC
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So why not invent a few as teachable moments for the kids?
Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
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Lizzie, too, was very teachable, and she and Joe became great friends.
Joe Strong, the Boy Fish; or, Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank
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Now's the teachable moment, even more than being caught in the lie.
Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
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I hope this is a teachable moment for every single one of you.
The South African
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Despite evidence that communication skills are teachable, few fellowship programs include such training.
Pubmed
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The children seem bright and teachable and not hard to control.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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The national conversation after Miss Davuluri's win has turned into a teachable moment.
The Guardian
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At the time, I didn't know any better... but I'm teachable.
Outpost
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Is there a teachable moment in all of this for America?
Ebony
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