comprehensible
Example Sentences
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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
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