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comprehensible

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


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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

The mechanisms through which it ravages bats, once mysterious, are now comprehensible.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

They are clear, straightforward, comprehensible; they contain nothing strange, wild or laughable.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse