as in understandable
capable of being understood
speculation on the odds that a communication from a far-off planet would be intelligible
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Recent Examples of intelligible
Hell’s Kitchen Cody Spencer — The Outsiders Everyone agrees that Hell’s Kitchen sounds incredible, whether or not its plot and themes are intelligible.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Even with a translator, though, the document – with its lofty references to the Biblical creation of the world and papal authority – would hardly be intelligible to people unfamiliar with the Spaniards’ religion.
—Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
The general standard, by the way, for the last century or so has been a good delegation must satisfy an intelligible principle to guide the agency's exercise of authority.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Unlike Newsom’s veto of the gas stove bill, the reasoning here is at least intelligible.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Even with a translator, though, the document – with its lofty references to the Biblical creation of the world and papal authority – would hardly be intelligible to people unfamiliar with the Spaniards’ religion.
—Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
The general standard, by the way, for the last century or so has been a good delegation must satisfy an intelligible principle to guide the agency's exercise of authority.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Unlike Newsom’s veto of the gas stove bill, the reasoning here is at least intelligible.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligible. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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