as in understandable
capable of being understood
speculation on the odds that a communication from a far-off planet would be intelligible
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Recent Examples of intelligible
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.
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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
Someone must have reported this to the management of the Chinese Theatre at Wednesday night’s premiere, because half-way through the show the sound fell several thousand decibels to a more acceptable and intelligible level.
—Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
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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
Someone must have reported this to the management of the Chinese Theatre at Wednesday night’s premiere, because half-way through the show the sound fell several thousand decibels to a more acceptable and intelligible level.
—Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligible
Adjective
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Many of these roles typically go to candidates with college degrees and aren’t readily accessible through the short-term training programs that have been expanding across New York.—
Jonathan Bowles,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2025
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While the video described above is not intended for children, for example, social media loopholes make this kind of content easily accessible to them.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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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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For patients to benefit fully from AI, there must be clear and comprehensible explanations of how these systems work and how they are evaluated.—
Rob El Kareh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligible. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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