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checkable

adjective
check·​able | \ ˈche-kÉ™-bÉ™l How to pronounce checkable (audio) \

Definition of checkable

1 : capable of being checked a checkable story
2 : held in or being a bank account on which checks can be drawn checkable deposits
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Examples of checkable in a Sentence

all of the statistics cited by the news reporter are readily checkable, but it would appear that the article was never fact-checked before publication

Recent Examples on the Web

 And of his material that was checkable, no significant red flags emerged. — Liz Spayd, New York Times, "Trump, Russia, and the News Story That Wasn't," 20 Jan. 2017

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First Known Use of checkable

1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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