cognoscible

adjective

Definition of cognosciblenext
as in crystal clear

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  1. crystal clear
  2. understandable
  3. evident
  4. intelligible
  5. knowable
  6. decided
  7. manifest
  8. transparent
Adjective
  • What is crystal clear is that the patterns of summers past are no longer predictable.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026
  • The young voters who voted the Democratic Socialists into power have made their demands crystal clear.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
Definition of crystal clear
Adjective
  • The objective — to force more value addition to happen at home — is understandable.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
  • There was an outpouring of support from Hollywood, including multiple memorials, but the family has kept a very low profile since the tragedy, which is more than understandable.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 17 July 2026
Definition of understandable
Adjective
  • That spirit is evident in Method Oregon, which is dedicated to advancing Oregon’s reputation as a world-class sparkling-wine region and telling the story of Oregon’s fast-growing traditional method movement.
    — Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 19 July 2026
  • What has become evident is that society needs a more clear-eyed approach to the potential losses from AI as well as a strategy for sharing the benefits.
    — Bridget Shirvell, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Definition of evident
Adjective
  • Tamil itself is no less a political construction, with public discourse and education carried out in a self-consciously archaic form of the language only half-intelligible to many speakers of its multifarious vernaculars.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • The Minions lose their Hollywood careers because sound arrives and nobody can understand their language, the same problem the real franchise solved 16 years ago by never giving its characters intelligible dialogue in the first place.
    — David Deal, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of intelligible
Adjective
  • Uncertainty is harder because the probabilities are not fully knowable in advance.
    — Henrik Totterman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Some seize on context (what is known or knowable, facts external to Vermeer) as a means of shrinking the blank space surrounding his work.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of knowable
Adjective
  • Follow pre-decided processes to avoid misunderstandings and unnecessary emotional labor.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Among decided voters, 86 percent of those who voted for the Ennahda and 84 percent of those who supported the FJP in the last elections would vote for them again.
    — Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2013
Definition of decided
Adjective
  • To enter this anniversary uncritically — wrapped in flags and the mythology of manifest destiny — is to be bamboozled.
    — Otis Moss III, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • In a sport where just one player can change lives and where a market like theirs should offer a manifest destiny, the team delivered, mostly, pain.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 14 June 2026
Definition of manifest
Adjective
  • Like many Maine officials, Biddeford mayor Liam LaFountain has called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero at the hands of a federal agent.
    — Caroll Alvarado, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • Several unresolved cases still warrant timely, transparent resolution.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 July 2026
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