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The word "feasible" is employed to emphasize practicality or possibility in a wide range of contexts, from strategic planning to intimate personal endeavors. Authors use it to assess whether certain actions or plans can realistically be executed—as seen in the discussion of a legal strategy ([1]) or even an expedition ([2]). It often appears in settings where time, resources, or circumstances impose real constraints, thus qualifying proposals as either attainable or overly optimistic ([3], [4]). In both historical and inventive narratives, "feasible" serves to balance ambitious ideas with the limitations inherent in execution, whether in political schemes ([5]) or adventurous escapes ([6], [7]). This versatile term consistently underlines what is practically within reach in the world of literature ([8], [9]).
  1. This plan seemed to me the most feasible of any, and I therefore decided to adopt it in working up the case against Pattmore.
    — from The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton
  2. I think the expedition is quite feasible.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  3. To give complete details of several years' work would take more time than is feasible here.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  4. As he lived in barracks I was a little doubtful whether this was feasible, but we went out to reconnoitre.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  5. Nor did it appear, so overwhelming were the Federal numbers, that counter-attack was feasible.
    — from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  6. He had not yet devised any feasible plan for running away, and he always liked to work at the Stearns' place.
    — from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
  7. An escape attempt would have been quite feasible, assuming Ned Land managed to seize the skiff without the captain's knowledge.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  8. Of course there is only one feasible explanation.
    — from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. That’s the vital issue at stake and it’s feasible and would be provocative of friendlier intercourse between man and man.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce

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