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perspicuous

[per-spik-yoo-uhs] / pərˈspɪk ju əs /


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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

Sir Robert Home, another Conservative ex-Chancellor, stated that he had never heard in the course of his Parliamentary experience a clearer or more perspicuous statement on national finance.

From Time Magazine Archive

He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity.

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 Albert Taylor Bledsoe


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