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as in analyzable
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as in legible
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Recent Examples of decipherable
As Sportico has detailed, many of these cases have come up short, including because courts have found the VPPA concerns information that would be decipherable to an ordinary person—like a list of videos someone watched—whereas interpretation of cookies requires technology and expertise.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
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
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
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
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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
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In his telling, this attack on limits is legible in a host of current phenomena, including mass immigration, free-market orthodoxy, the rise of AI, overseas labor exploitation, the clear-cutting of rainforests, and new ideas about gender.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
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With Henry’s arrival, Tara gains an identity in the contemporary sense—a gender, a particular disposition toward the world that is legible through her speech and actions.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Vitamin D for Strong Bones Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin.—
T'Keyah Bazin,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
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SulfurSolve aims to avoid inefficiencies by using chemically stable carbonate ions to keep iron soluble and reactive at alkaline pH levels.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Angel Down is very readable and very distressing.—
Neil McRobert,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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Or something far less explainable—an unseen presence stirring below the Mojave sands?—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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Public rules, explainable decisions, standards that are visible, enforceable, and human-first.—
Jan Liphardt,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Some had translucent skin and no discernible bones.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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
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Not in any explicit way—my father wasn’t the cranky, alcoholic ex-minor league baseball player who drove around Los Angeles with his pool cleaning equipment in the back of his Cadillac convertible played by Matthau.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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In a robot like Shakey, the map is explicit.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Decipherable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipherable. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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