comprehensible

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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

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

"Art restitution is a very sensitive issue, all research must be carried out accurately and in detail, and the result must be comprehensible and transparent," Ms Jakubovits said.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 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