readability

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Recent Examples of readability It is also designed to improve readability. Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 19 June 2026 Websites today need to be built for machine-first readability, with humans second. Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 Crafting an effective job listing requires preparation, specificity and readability. 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for readability
Noun
  • Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
    Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • The largest listing sites bring legibility to tens of thousands of businesses for sale, with millions of monthly buyers on the other side.
    Dylan Gans, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • But where her labelmates routinely drape their songs in warm, dense fuzz, Babuka Black opts for clarity and directness.
    Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026
  • His filmmaking has a lovely, homespun directness.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Mary Gaitskill is particularly good at this ideal combination of straightforwardness and pithiness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Your forthrightness will set the tone for future dates.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • There’s something both startling and seductive about such forthrightness.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Points, too, for the solid casting, from the leads’ tricky pivoting from openness to caginess, to the criminally underseen Wasikowska, who navigates maternal complexities of worry and compassion that confound easy pigeonholing.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Low curiosity, low humility, low openness to feedback — these are precisely the traits that both predict the need for change and predict resistance to it.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

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“Readability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/readability. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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