intelligible
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He added: "Her conclusions are rational and supported by proper, adequate and intelligible reasons."
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Michael Auslin terms Coolidge’s interpretation “more intelligible and congenial to ordinary Americans than the abstract musings of scholars.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Taken in isolation, these three irreducible realities are opaque; for Rosenzweig they become intelligible only in relation to one another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Art criticism is about writing, a fundamental way to process that mystery, aiming to discover something at least temporarily intelligible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
Somewhere, obscured by the snatches of conversation, pages of old letters, bits of books and magazines, memories of old movies, and the disorder of radio and television, there ought to be more intelligible signals.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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