decipherable

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Recent Examples of decipherable The luxury of listening to recordings is that an opera need not have a decipherable plot or a plausible setting to give pleasure. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decipherable
Adjective
  • SeeMe documented eye-opening responses in 30 of 36 patients and mouth movements in 16 of 17 patients with analyzable videos.
    Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Heritage Trail reframes a place once imagined in minarets and myth, now made newly legible through restoration, storytelling, and design.
    Carmen F de Terenzio, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Remarkably, this language—Goonicide, Gooneral—was broadly legible to hundreds of thousands of people who engaged with it online.
    Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Choose water-soluble food that can be added during your watering routine, and don’t fertilize the orchid during dormancy.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Soluble Fiber Makes Kiwi a Low-Glycemic-Index Food The soluble fiber in kiwi helps slow digestion and control how quickly sugar gets absorbed into the bloodstream, said Charlize Del Rosario, RD, CNSC, a dietitian at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, part of Keck Medicine of USC.
    Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This is helpful for keeping the text readable while not completely detracting from your vision, depending on your preferences.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Angel Down is very readable and very distressing.
    Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Public rules, explainable decisions, standards that are visible, enforceable, and human-first.
    Jan Liphardt, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But beginning in the 1970s, scientists started identifying some puzzles surrounding the Big Bang, noting several properties of the Universe that weren’t explainable within the context of these two notions simultaneously.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The study looked at states excluding Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming, where sale prices are not fully discernible.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Across the hall, Mary Elizabeth’s room was quiet, with only a few discernible words coming across the spirit box.
    Jim Beaugez, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Those old-fashioned TV-show plots with a premeditated murder committed for some explicable reason, that’s really an anachronism.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Jason Ritter plays Julian’s scenes in this episode with raw emotion, making the character’s choices more explicable, if not entirely forgivable.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Amid the pandemic-era lockdowns, more and more people began paying for explicit content online.
    Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Not until 2013, however, did French chocolate undergo a more explicit change.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Decipherable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipherable. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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