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embracable

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embracable

  1. Nonstandard spelling of embraceable.
    • 1970, Marshall McLuhan, Culture Is Our Business:
      Utterly embracable, consumable, and expendable, they expect little, for they know that the fragile ego of the playboy cannot endure the threat of any strain or commitment.
    • 1988, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 705:
      [] arranged so that said one of said intermediate hinge pins is catchable and embracable between both of said second parts, said second part having a respective pressing surface which is pressable against said one of said intermediate hinge pins when in a catch position, []
    • 2007, Anna Darden Copeland, Synthesizing Systems, page 5:
      [] such emphasis detracts from the ability of the author to render warm and embracable characters.