understandable
Example Sentences
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The public at large bought into those efforts with little skepticism in the understandable desire to have Latinos star in the American story.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The places where football players and managers are approached to sign autographs can vary from mundane and understandable to invasive and inappropriate.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
The Gulf Arab caution is in one sense understandable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
It’s understandable that CF’s stock surged after the start of the conflict, because the company is a “pure-play” nitrogen producer, and farmers have no option but to use nitrogen if planting corn, Rodriguez wrote.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
The professor was likable, it was the sixties, not having your creative juices flowing was understandable.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.