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navigable

[nav-i-guh-buhl] / ˈnæv ɪ gə bəl /
ADJECTIVE
traversable
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Even if the Strait were fully navigable ⁠immediately, he added, “it will take months for the oil supply to return to normal.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

“Nevertheless, even if the Strait of Hormuz becomes navigable again soon, it will take months for the oil supply to return to normal.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

American settlement hugged natural ports and navigable rivers.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Stretching from Alaska to the pencil tip of Argentina, the 48,000km-long Pan-American Highway holds the record for the world's longest road navigable by motor vehicle.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

From talking with the patients I’ve gotten passably fluent in Lingala, which is spoken throughout northern Congo, in Léopoldville, and along most of the navigable rivers.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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