intelligible

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Also, the inventive, nonliteral staging by director Zack Winokur, choreographer Pam Tanowitz, co-set designers Mimi Lien and Jack Forman and lighting designer John Torres is astonishing to look at but not always intelligible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Within months, Sarah lost the use of her hands, then "all intelligible speech".

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

That’s a prescient thought, given the only intelligible question one can muster once they see Gaga’s 25-foot dress for the opening act is, “How?”

From Salon • Apr. 16, 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

Yet the answer did not seem sensible, intelligible.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright