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intelligibly



ADVERB
understandably
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Speech therapy continues, enabling her to speak intelligibly in a quiet room but with no sign she will recover the full lucidity of her natural voice.

From Seattle Times May 13, 2024

“Perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so,” Potter said.

From Washington Post Mar. 25, 2022

I’ve made a few voice memo recordings and had some calls with the 1000XM4s, and while the mics won’t give you pristine audio, your voice is reproduced clearly and intelligibly.

From The Verge Aug. 6, 2020

But for all its invention, “Maniac” keeps the “Inception” convolutions to a minimum, toggling intelligibly between the lab and the flights of fancy in Annie and Owen’s heads.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2018

In this way it may be intelligibly said, without any reference to utilitarian considerations, that monogamy is a higher state than polygamy.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky




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