as in understandable
capable of being understood
speculation on the odds that a communication from a far-off planet would be intelligible
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Recent Examples of intelligible
Clear, intelligible, physical consequences for success or failure in combat are crucial to building effective battle sequences, and Wheel comfortably passes that test this week.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025
My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The lyrics manage to be about nothing in particular yet totally intelligible.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025
My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The lyrics manage to be about nothing in particular yet totally intelligible.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligible
Adjective
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The Issues As countries with large, accessible datasets gain an advantage in training more robust and accurate AI models, the ability to collect, process and analyze diverse and high-quality healthcare data through patient records, genomic data, imaging and more becomes a strategic asset.—
Ming-Chien Chyu,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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The delay by the City Council is all the more confounding because early results from the city’s five pilot zones show some promise, but also some lessons that there is more work to do to bring more affordable, accessible housing to neighborhoods across the city.—
David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
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Sparse autoencoders, for instance, can help simplify neural network activations into comprehensible parts.—
Rishabh Sambare,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Unclear plan and purpose These moves have left many Americans feeling as though the White House has no comprehensible strategy.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligible. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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