comprehensible

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

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Art—crude or cruel, adolescent or arch—is supposed to make comprehensible the incomprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

The language was often comprehensible even for non-Yiddish speakers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

"To discover that he had always set out to hurt the vulnerable is beyond comprehensible," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

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