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comprehensible

[kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl] / ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn sə bəl /


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"What will never be comprehensible, justified or admitted is violence," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

Art—crude or cruel, adolescent or arch—is supposed to make comprehensible the incomprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Li shows us the broader computational context of AI’s emergence, explaining key concepts and breakthroughs in vivid, comprehensible detail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

The mechanisms through which it ravages bats, once mysterious, are now comprehensible.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

Extraterrestrials would, of course, wish to make a message sent to us as comprehensible as possible.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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