perspicuous
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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
In an unusually perspicuous article, excepting the vagaries of style considered essential to The Saturday Evening Post, Isaac F. Marcosson, famed cosmic journalist, discussed Britain's Labor regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A perspicuous and painful study of a family that has risen from rags to wretchedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When experience has once clearly exhibited these facts and science has marshalled them in economic and perspicuous order, there is no doubt that we shall understand them.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
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