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Recent Examples of intelligibility
Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.
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Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Speaking of clarity, these new headphones have been designed by Sennheiser’s in-house acoustics team and are tuned for vocal intelligibility, while still providing plenty of bass response.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Research has also shown pupillometry to be a sensitive, objective correlate of speech intelligibility and mental strain.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
Everyone seems to symbolize something…but the oceanic flood of writing itself is always carrying them away, just beyond intelligibility.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Speaking of clarity, these new headphones have been designed by Sennheiser’s in-house acoustics team and are tuned for vocal intelligibility, while still providing plenty of bass response.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Research has also shown pupillometry to be a sensitive, objective correlate of speech intelligibility and mental strain.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
Everyone seems to symbolize something…but the oceanic flood of writing itself is always carrying them away, just beyond intelligibility.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligibility
Noun
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Just as the latter’s elegant cursive lines eschewed legibility for pure, drunken expression, the former’s Auto-Tuned vocals form only the contours of words.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
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Denilson Baniwa has argued that one of Indigenous art’s most effective instruments of resistance is disguise—the adoption of non-Indigenous forms to achieve legibility in white, institutional terms, while the actual logic resides elsewhere, unreadable to those the work isn’t intended for.—
María Carri,
Artforum,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Crafting an effective job listing requires preparation, specificity and readability.—
Kat Boogaard,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
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This story has been lightly edited and condensed for readability.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Intelligibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligibility. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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