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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
winnable

1540s, from win (v.) + -able.

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winnable

a. able to be won or achieved

Usage examples of "winnable".

The military advised Johnson that war was winnable in Vietnam but it would require overwhelming force.

Despite her short tone, Jane way thought the doctor might well have something somewhere that would mutate a Kobayashi Maru exercise into something winnable, the way that James T.

Gilliatt suddenly wanted to walk away from it all, get back in the motorboat and go on pretending that the war was winnable as long as he and others like him did their duty, carried out their allotted tasks.

The heat of the wet suit, the strain of putting it on in the stuffy stateroom while the ship rolled in the swells, the stress of being ordered to win a war that might not be winnable were all building into a world-class migraine headache.

On May 7, the primary looked even more winnable when Senator Gary Hart, who had almost upset Vice President Mondale in 1984, withdrew from the race after his relationship with Donna Rice was exposed.

He wanted to be in a place where the war was still winnable, where the people and leaders had a community vision and would support him.

They fear that our Jihad is not winnable, that war will continue for centuries without victory.

As to the alternative, she wanted a negotiable but substantial sum of money and, following a discreet abortion, my energetic assistance in obtaining a candidature for a winnable seat in Parliament.