salvageable

adjective

as in repairable

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Recent Examples of salvageable That’s what the remaining 12 games of this season is about, identifying and investing in what’s salvageable. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026 The entire store did a rehaul from the ground up — given that the only thing salvageable were the cement floors and the marble countertops. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 In Williams’ place, Kodai Senga looks salvageable as a reliever entering the final year of his contract. — Tim Britton, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 Floating in zero gravity, players slice derelict spacecraft into salvageable chunks, while also contending with unruly physics, pressure, and profit margins. — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Here’s how to judge if your petunias are salvageable and how to refresh the look of sparse or leggy plants. — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 14 July 2026 The recent fire heavily damaged the structure, and a structural assessment found that what remains is not salvageable, DPR explained. — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 9 June 2026 The historic bandstand that caught fire in Denver’s City Park in March is not salvageable and will need to be torn down, according to Mayor Mike Johnston and Denver Parks & Recreation. — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 8 June 2026 The developers have determined the original century-old structure is no longer salvageable. — Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvageable
  1. repairable
  2. reparable
  3. correctable
  4. fixable
Adjective
  • What's especially neat, though, is these are as repairable as the original Fairbuds.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Although the oil market largely dodged a bullet after a successful but repairable attack on Saudi Arabia’s crucial East-West pipeline, the recent attacks prove that the conflict isn’t abating anytime soon.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of repairable
Adjective
  • Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The building suffered reparable damage, but renovation efforts have been thwarted, according to owner James Touhuni.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
Definition of reparable
Adjective
  • Short cycles that release only a few cars, and left turn lanes with storage too short to reach the green arrow, are correctable through retiming and restriping.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
  • After studying the game, Miami’s coaches believe the issues that stunted their second-half offense are correctable going forward.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of correctable
Adjective
  • Somewhere in that trail are the leaks; small, fixable and expensive.
    — Dr. Sariki Abungwo, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The biggest problem in its quarterly results Tuesday was the cardiovascular unit within its MedTech segment, though management insists the problems are fixable.
    — Alexa LoMonaco,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of fixable

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“Salvageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salvageable. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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