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Peterson told me that white adopters of young Native Americans in the American South were following Thomas Jefferson’s ideas about the influence of environment and the improvability of Native people.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2016

Ms. Nasar introduces us to Alfred Marshall, whose own metamorphosis from scholarship boy to Cambridge don informed his “optimism about the improvability of man and his circumstances.”

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2011

The thought of the soul's improvability is well adapted to quicken torpid virtue and to revive drooping aspirations.

From The Jericho Road by Adkins, W. Bion

Yet there is no more doubt of the improvability of the average mind, however inaccurate at the start, than of the power of the will to correct other bad habits into which people unconsciously fall.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

Very early in the history of horticulture the apple attracted attention by its improvability, showing that it belonged to the class of culture-plants.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.