palatable
adjective
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Palatable comes from palate, a word for the roof of the mouth, which itself comes from Latin palatum. The palate was once thought of as the seat of the sense of taste, so the word eventually came to mean "sense of taste," or broadly, "liking."
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Examples of palatable in a Sentence
TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
The Panthers brass could trade up if a top talent falls within in range of a palatable move up the board.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2024
Tax experts say that makes these programs more politically palatable.
—Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
The pressure to package artists’ identities into palatable, bite-sized social clips can also be damaging.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
Most bears shot in the wild will be more than palatable.
—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
For the White House, Gantz represents a more reasonable, palatable Israeli leader, who, unlike Netanyahu, isn’t dogged by corruption charges and hasn’t spent the past decade meddling in Washington’s partisan politics.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
An attempt at sanitizing nuclear war into a seemingly more palatable event.
—Annie Jacobsen, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
Movie stars only, please, working with directors who could safely deliver something palatable to the mainstream.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Palatable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palatable. Accessed 1 May. 2024.
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