as in unreadable
incapable of being read or deciphered
illegible signatures on the petition will be disregarded
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Recent Examples of illegible
And the document itself is marked up with corrections and disclaimers that facts are incorrect or that context is missing to the point of being almost illegible.
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Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Willimantic Police provided a handwritten log that was inconsistent and sometimes illegible.
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Ginny Monk,
ProPublica,
27 Apr. 2026
Potier decodes that practically illegible document and creates a 3-D realization that grows from a fantastically complex swirl of interlocking geometries.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Apr. 2026
Past albums like Lyfë and 2093 were best experienced as hourslong excursions into illegible rage-rap experiences that washed over the listener, with Yeat’s voice muttering his harmonies amid glitchy laptop bangers.
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Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Willimantic Police provided a handwritten log that was inconsistent and sometimes illegible.
—
Ginny Monk,
ProPublica,
27 Apr. 2026
Potier decodes that practically illegible document and creates a 3-D realization that grows from a fantastically complex swirl of interlocking geometries.
—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Apr. 2026
Past albums like Lyfë and 2093 were best experienced as hourslong excursions into illegible rage-rap experiences that washed over the listener, with Yeat’s voice muttering his harmonies amid glitchy laptop bangers.
—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illegible
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Vance’s hypocrisy alone makes Communion nearly unreadable.
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The ocean essentially became unreadable, with visibility collapsing not for hours but for months at a time.
Adjective
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When that’s not enough, Google may add random noise to the data that can further obscure identities.
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This seems, if anything, deliberately obscure.
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One of the most exciting uses of AI has to be helping historians and archaeologists decipher previously indecipherable or untranslatable ancient texts.
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But the messy sound rendered his singing indecipherable, a problem that persisted throughout the 2-hour and 45-minute performance.
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Single dishes tend to be more sensitive and able to pick up faint radio waves from deeper in the cosmos, but radio arrays with many dishes tend to capture much sharper images.
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However, this new research showed that these point sources, including pulsars, would be extremely faint, and that is good news for scientists who favor annihilating dark matter as the cause of these gamma rays.
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Georgia relies on machines that count ballots by reading QR codes that are undecipherable to humans.
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The spirit and the symbolism were, at times, undecipherable.
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Yet whether van Dijk will still be in uniform in 2030 is unclear, making this a chance the Netherlands can’t afford to lose.
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Any plan for data retention policies remains troublingly unclear, and there’s seemingly been no privacy impact assessment weighing the privacy implications of centralizing so much sensitive data in the White House, the Guardian reported.
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“Illegible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illegible. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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