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

Sir Robert Home, another Conservative ex-Chancellor, stated that he had never heard in the course of his Parliamentary experience a clearer or more perspicuous statement on national finance.

From Time Magazine Archive

To be clear or perspicuous a meaning must be detached, single, self-contained, homogeneous as it were, throughout.

From How We Think by Dewey, John