intelligible
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Michael Auslin terms Coolidge’s interpretation “more intelligible and congenial to ordinary Americans than the abstract musings of scholars.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Within months, Sarah lost the use of her hands, then "all intelligible speech".
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
When situated within this broader context of a professed commitment to scientific detachment, Oppenheimer’s behavior becomes more intelligible.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025
Elora Forshee, director of Sedgwick County Emergency Communications, has said Bedeski’s call was not intelligible enough for the dispatcher to understand that she was trapped.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
And in a low voice she read something, of which not one word was intelligible to me; for it was in an unknown tongue—neither French nor Latin.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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