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
  • Whereas Joseph Mitchell’s pristine artistry and Janet Malcolm’s penetrating eye seemed otherworldly, the elements of what made a McKelway story work were legible to me, albeit polished to their highest form.
    David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Babycatcher took the writing implements and, holding the pen like a farmer holds his fork, scratched down barely legible numbers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Your Gut Health Improves Nopal provides both soluble and insoblube fiber, which benefits the gut in a variety of ways.
    Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Overnight Oats Overnight oats are easy to prepare and high in a kind of soluble fiber called beta-glucan, which may lower heart disease risk factors like high cholesterol and blood pressure.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 17 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 set-piece prowess is still there, and accounts for nearly 37 per cent of their xG (the fifth-highest in the league), but there has been a discernible shift so far in the type of chances created from open play.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Black Rabbit name checks Coney Island and alludes to Vince and Jake having a working-class background of some sort, but doesn’t have anything discernible to say about New Yorkers or class in America.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 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
  • In one recent case, a 22-year-old man used Discord to prey on victims as young as 12 years old, coercing them into creating explicit content.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In sharp contrast, Trump has now attempted three times to send troops to large cities over the explicit objection of Democratic governors.
    Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Decipherable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipherable. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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