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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Adjective
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Once concentrated in specific regions and accessible primarily to an elite class of investors, private markets have seen ground-breaking growth in both geographical reach and investor diversity.—
Hank Boughner,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025 -
In most states, the details are not publicly accessible.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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For patients to benefit fully from AI, there must be clear and comprehensible explanations of how these systems work and how they are evaluated.—
Rob El Kareh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Given the stakes for reproductive autonomy, Donegan’s reservations are entirely comprehensible.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Clear, intelligible, physical consequences for success or failure in combat are crucial to building effective battle sequences, and Wheel comfortably passes that test this week.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Understandable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/understandable. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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