as in accessible
capable of being understood
with understandable pain and anger, the victim's family lashed out at the convicted murderer
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for understandable
Adjective
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Today, private education is becoming widely accessible to many more families.—
Kerry McDonald,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Currently, approximately 30 percent of what Holt buys and sells is in the more accessible price range.—
David Moin,
WWD,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The concerns are comprehensible enough: in the rarefied zero-sum world of elite American education, is the use of lotteries or personality scores for admissions not discriminatory toward Asian students who must be better than best in their efforts—when their efforts have any bearing at all?—
Yiyun Li,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Oct. 2024
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The precise figures are less important than the core takeaway, however: Syrians are split in their loyalties, and those splits are comprehensible.—
Daniel Corstange,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Sep. 2016
Adjective
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Similar approaches could be used to induce AI systems to make more human-like mistakes, particularly by penalizing them more for mistakes that are less intelligible.—
Bruce Schneier,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Jan. 2025
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Someone must have reported this to the management of the Chinese Theatre at Wednesday night’s premiere, because half-way through the show the sound fell several thousand decibels to a more acceptable and intelligible level.—
Arthur Knight,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Dec. 2024
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“Understandable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/understandable. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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