decipherable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decipherable
Adjective
  • The mood is palpable, and the meditation legible, even if Winnipeg and Iranian cinema are to you as remote as a chilly winter moon.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Scientists think the ink may contain a denser contaminant (potentially lead) that allows the text to be more legible than other Herculaneum scrolls when subjected to X-ray scans.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Vitamin E Vitamin E is a soluble vitamin found in some foods, added to foods, or available in supplement form.
    Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
  • These clays can occur when the water source is acidic or can be simply due to longer exposure to water, as the magnesium clays are a bit more soluble.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But what makes Austen eminently readable is her characters’, and her own, enthusiasm for the world.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • These things collide in a compulsively readable mashup of thriller and horror.
    Erika Swyler, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Francis' feeble voice, discernible through his labored breaths and in his native Spanish, was recorded Thursday from the hospital and broadcast to the faithful in St. Peter's Square who had gathered for the nightly recitation of the rosary prayer.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Things are pretty much unchanged at the other end, with no discernible difference in United’s defensive numbers since Amorim arrived.
    Mark Carey, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of them are horrendous but explicable, like Novak Djokovic beating Gael Monfils in all 20 of their meetings; Rafael Nadal’s 18-0 record against Richard Gasquet and Roger Federer’s 17-0 against David Ferrer.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Zelenskyy had been pressing the White House for explicit security guarantees, to no avail.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Being explicit and deliberate in communicating timely health advice is critical, particularly during a deadly disease outbreak.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fortunately, as 2025 kicks off, this is a solvable problem.
    James Bruni, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Moreover, not all problems are solvable—especially not in a world of scarce resources and competing priorities.
    Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Living on a ramshackle riverfront house all but sinking into the blue, Liang lives a mostly solitary existence, keeping a joyless job at a waste-management center with only one other visible employee, Hao (Chin Yu-pan).
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Mercury is expected to join the other planets in being visible to the unaided eye by Friday, Feb. 28.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Decipherable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipherable. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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