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

He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity.

From Time Magazine Archive

A perspicuous and painful study of a family that has risen from rags to wretchedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every person has sometimes occasion to consult a work of this kind, and there is no other in English so masterly in treatment, or so perspicuous in style.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various