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comprehensible

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


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Another Iranian broke in to warn off an approaching ship, an argument breaking out in barely comprehensible English: “Serious warning! Serious warning!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

The impulse to domesticate performance into a comprehensible story was denied by the sensory bombardment of his productions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

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

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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