perspicuous
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But were Tagovailoa a combat sport athlete — a boxer or mixed martial artist — there would be a timeline for return as perspicuous as if he were found to be taking banned performance-enhancing drugs.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022
A perspicuous and painful study of a family that has risen from rags to wretchedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite this book from the perspicuous pen of M. Viviani, it is possible that the Old Man of Doom is not quite as bad as he is depicted.
From Time Magazine Archive
In order to do this in a perspicuous and satisfactory manner, let us consider the occasion on which we first became acquainted with the truth of the principle, that every effect must have a cause.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
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