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Recent Examples of readability
Crafting an effective job listing requires preparation, specificity and readability.
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Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
This story has been lightly edited and condensed for readability.
—Glamour, 1 Apr. 2026
This phone conversation was edited for length, clarity and readability.
—Emily Brindley
health Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
Creating a Hub presents all the related files in a playlist-style format for easy readability.
—Robert Anderson, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability.
—Laura Aull, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
The Six-inch diameter elevated platform can hold a mixing bowl or container while still allowing for readability of the display.
—Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Mar. 2026
This technique lets groups look at moving patterns, customer alerts and aggressive actions with advanced readability and consistency.
—Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
The new research did not account for mechanical stress or corrosion as part of longevity testing, and both are likely to affect the readability of the data over a long time.
—Damien Pine, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
This story has been lightly edited and condensed for readability.
—Glamour, 1 Apr. 2026
This phone conversation was edited for length, clarity and readability.
—Emily Brindley
health Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
Creating a Hub presents all the related files in a playlist-style format for easy readability.
—Robert Anderson, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability.
—Laura Aull, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
The Six-inch diameter elevated platform can hold a mixing bowl or container while still allowing for readability of the display.
—Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Mar. 2026
This technique lets groups look at moving patterns, customer alerts and aggressive actions with advanced readability and consistency.
—Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
The new research did not account for mechanical stress or corrosion as part of longevity testing, and both are likely to affect the readability of the data over a long time.
—Damien Pine, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for readability
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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In that video, her performance seemed oriented toward showcasing technical ability, overriding the song’s directness with display.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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This is the meeting of the messenger planet and the taskmaster, let alone in the zodiac’s most fearless sign, setting the stage for a transit that cuts right through the fluff, forcing truth and directness.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Mary Gaitskill is particularly good at this ideal combination of straightforwardness and pithiness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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Her question, in Lipe-Smith’s inquisitive piccolo of a voice, is heartbreaking in its blend of straightforwardness and desperate desire, as is her mother’s wavering response.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To say we are disappointed by the lack of urgency and forthrightness from the city attorney’s office is an understatement.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Fortune spoke with six people who have invested in Anthropic to get a sense of how this key constituency is feeling about the situation, and found that opinions were not unified despite the company’s longstanding forthrightness about its values.—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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If wrestling is so watchable thanks to its intelligibility—every appearance, utterance, and movement is so extreme that the point of the story cannot be misinterpreted—then the same can be said of many scenarios in KUWTK.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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As one of the negative philosophies, pessimism, in its adherence to radical openness, is also marked by its anti-systematic nature.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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That openness extends to his ambitions for future editions.—
Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
13 May 2026
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“Readability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/readability. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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