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comprehensible

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


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The problem is that planning documents are barely comprehensible in English.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

"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

His declining ability to generate a comprehensible sentence, much less string together a coherent argument, will raise serious concerns.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2024

The codebook was like a dictionary, enabling the code clerk to translate a message into a secret language, comprehensible only to those with access to it.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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