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comprehensible

[kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl] / ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn sə bəl /


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The problem is that planning documents are barely comprehensible in English.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

"What will never be comprehensible, justified or admitted is violence," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

Skeptics who had been perplexed by Mr. Gehry’s squirming metallic shapes suddenly found them perfectly comprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

His declining ability to generate a comprehensible sentence, much less string together a coherent argument, will raise serious concerns.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2024

The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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