Definitions
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- adjective Capable of being
pronounced oruttered ;articulable . - adjective Susceptible of being stated
clearly oreffectively .
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Examples
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What is said and sayable is decided by economic power and the personal tastes of those with money.
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Central to Ensler's work is the idea that the tension between the sayable and the unsayable is created by the powers that be, a.k.a. patriarchy, hell-bent on suppressing what Ensler dubs the "girl cell."
Jill Di Donato: It's My Fault; Or Is It?: A New Play Explores Rape As More Than a Four Letter Word Jill Di Donato 2011
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They'll mostly discover essays that invite the writer to say the same old things, the eminently sayable, in the same old ways, but to think of this as "craft."
Our Stories 2009
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What is said and sayable is decided by economic power and the personal tastes of those with money.
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More militant pluralists must intervene at every level of practice from faculty meetings, media outlets, and bar discussions to set the terms of what is sayable and what is not.
Jairus Grove: A User's Guide to the New Racism Jairus Grove 2010
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Central to Ensler's work is the idea that the tension between the sayable and the unsayable is created by the powers that be, a.k.a. patriarchy, hell-bent on suppressing what Ensler dubs the "girl cell."
Jill Di Donato: It's My Fault; Or Is It?: A New Play Explores Rape As More Than a Four Letter Word Jill Di Donato 2011
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They'll mostly discover essays that invite the writer to say the same old things, the eminently sayable, in the same old ways, but to think of this as "craft."
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They'll mostly discover essays that invite the writer to say the same old things, the eminently sayable, in the same old ways, but to think of this as "craft."
October 2009 2009
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More militant pluralists must intervene at every level of practice from faculty meetings, media outlets, and bar discussions to set the terms of what is sayable and what is not.
Jairus Grove: A User's Guide to the New Racism Jairus Grove 2010
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(If I had agreed that the saying of prayers was my purpose he might have hit me with some religious stuff about prayers being sayable anywhere.)
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