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usable +‎ -ly

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usably (comparative more usably, superlative most usably)

  1. In a usable manner.
    • 2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H2O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:
      Such a sense is typically not presented to the subject in usably verbal form; one says things like ‘She would do that because she is that sort of person.’