as in understandable
capable of being understood
the immensity of the world is not graspable to a child of that age, so the notion of a globe-trotting Santa Claus is plausible
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Adjective
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What this means to you For everyday drivers, autonomous trucks raise understandable questions.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
15 Jan. 2026 -
In a time of school shootings, classroom bullying, culture wars over curricula, and faltering test scores, the impulse of some parents to take over their child’s education is understandable.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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When skills become accessible, entire communities and economies grow stronger.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Sweepstakes casino websites are readily accessible to Indiana residents and most offer a full range of casino-style games, including slots, roulette, blackjack, craps, and other banking or percentage card or dice games.—
Daniel Wallach,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Mario Kart has to work as an entry point to gaming, something slow and comprehensible enough for your grandma to pick up.—
Ryan Gaur,
Rolling Stone,
19 Nov. 2025
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That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.—
Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Graspable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graspable. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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