Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Desirable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete That may be chosen; desirable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete That may be
chosen ;desirable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, seeing the Tea Party is not gettable or co-optable, the Democrats are attempting to demonize them, and us
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Why would evolution have a tendency to produce genes which were "co-optable"
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Why would evolution have a tendency to produce genes which were "co-optable"
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As long ago as the early 1990s, drum'n'bass – another theoretically unco-optable sound from a previous generation – was crossing over, with tracks like Baby D's shuffling "Let Me Be Your Fantasy", a model of sorts for Magnetic Man feat.
Tinchy Stryder; Magnetic Man – review Kitty Empire 2010
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Chavez grasped all along that there was no point in jailing masses of people, censoring newspapers and generally playing the highly damaging role of repressive ogre when he had enough cash on hand to co-opt the co-optable and bankrupt the rest.
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ZAKARIA: And so, should we begin a process of greater dialogue with the Taliban to find those members of the Taliban who are co - optable, who are willing to come over into the Afghan political process?
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At the same time, Israel chose a co-optable Mahmoud Abbas over the legitimate Hamas government.
Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations" 2008
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The second thing, then, is co-opting everybody who's possibly co - optable.
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At the same time, Israel chose a co-optable Mahmoud Abbas over the legitimate Hamas government.
Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations" 2008
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Media Reform as a concept has been narrowed in scope and focused on legislative lobbying by lawyers and professionals inside the beltway, narrowed to a series of buzzwords like "net neutrality," turned into a support group for two good but potentially co-optable FCC Commissioners and "pragmatic" members of Congress, "big names" in show biz and politics but with only a handful of grass roots leaders.
The 2006 National Media Reform Conference Ignored the Greatest Threat to its Existence 2007
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