intelligible

Example Sentences

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Art criticism is about writing, a fundamental way to process that mystery, aiming to discover something at least temporarily intelligible.

From Los Angeles Times

Another year passed before I could write an intelligible essay, yet teachers always marked my work with “awkward” because I so loved the thesaurus.

From Washington Post

As the daughter of a psychiatrist herself, Malcolm was ever alert to inconsistencies and reversals, to text and to subtext, to the ways that we try to make ourselves intelligible to ourselves and to others.

From New York Times

A key purpose of the executive order, he said, is to “advance consistent, clear, intelligible, comparable and accurate disclosure of climate-related financial risk, including both physical and transitional risk.”

From Scientific American

Perhaps some such voters are simply too perverse to really be intelligible.

From Washington Post