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Recent Examples of intelligible The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025 My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante. Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 The lyrics manage to be about nothing in particular yet totally intelligible. Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Similar approaches could be used to induce AI systems to make more human-like mistakes, particularly by penalizing them more for mistakes that are less intelligible. Bruce Schneier, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for intelligible
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Adjective
  • Right above is an office accessible only by a ladder, giving it a sort of treehouse feel.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 May 2025
  • However, experts agree this is one step closer to a more equitable and accessible approach to Alzheimer’s care.
    Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Nearby conversations are clear enough as to be comprehensible.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
  • An example would be upstream CX changes that help eliminate downstream, cost-inflating customer inquiries (e.g., better product assembly instructions, clearer and more comprehensible invoices, more seamless product return procedures, and even just better expectation-setting at point-of-sale).
    Jon Picoult, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligible. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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