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 bright display is clear and legible in daylight, showing key information without being cluttered.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In both cases, the Jolly Roger flag worked like open-source code – adaptable locally but instantly legible elsewhere.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Chia Seeds Chia seeds contain soluble fiber that helps increase fullness and supports healthy digestion.
    Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Flax is known to promote good digestive health and prevent constipation, thanks to plenty of insoluble fiber and soluble fiber (both of which facilitate digestion and regular bowel movements through slightly different means).
    Christina Chaey, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Some ink tank printers do better on this score than others, but any laser picked at random will usually do a better job overall at producing crisp, readable text and line graphics on plain paper.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Castro is a precise and immensely readable stylist.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • But, as is true for most of the things that happen in Black Rabbit, there’s no easy way to explain something that appears, well, easily explainable on the surface.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Our latest podcast on the maddening world of West Ham United — an outfit with no discernible vision or direction — is a very good listen.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • However, Do was not willing to share a resume with our editorial board and his LinkedIn profile mentions companies that have no discernible online presence.
    Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 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
  • The political resonance of his project arises not from an explicit statement of values but from a tender demonstration of complex, undeniable humanity.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The department’s content warnings include mild romantic situations and notions of matchmaking, gentle social satire, occasional passive-aggressive dialogue and very mild suggestive themes (but nothing explicit).
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Decipherable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipherable. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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