intelligible
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Each had been severed from the setting that made rights, ownership and succession intelligible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
By removing the usual scaffolding that renders human life intelligible, above all custom and language, the books ask what lies beneath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
And references to the original run notwithstanding — appletinis, “Star Wars,” a certain closet — it’s intelligible and funny on its own terms , and as full of love as ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Within months, Sarah lost the use of her hands, then "all intelligible speech".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
Then his answer was delivered, muffled but intelligible, into the warmth of Boo Boo’s neck.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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