intelligible

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Also, the inventive, nonliteral staging by director Zack Winokur, choreographer Pam Tanowitz, co-set designers Mimi Lien and Jack Forman and lighting designer John Torres is astonishing to look at but not always intelligible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

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

Within months, Sarah lost the use of her hands, then "all intelligible speech".

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

When situated within this broader context of a professed commitment to scientific detachment, Oppenheimer’s behavior becomes more intelligible.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

And then Celia’s giant nonsense word began to break apart into smaller, more intelligible ones.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon