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Recent Examples of readable Text in the Messages app tries to cast a faint shadow in an attempt to stay readable when positioned over top of a loud background image. ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025 Your profile should be findable and readable. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 However, outdoor gear reviewer Ray Maker noted this screen isn't actually much more readable than the AMOLED version, and in this video, that certainly seems to be the case. New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2025 As in each of the stories, the lives of these characters outside of their chapter, while seldom spoken of in any revealing way, are amply readable. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for readable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for readable
Adjective
  • Neglected and overgrown, the inscription was barely legible until local historian and YouTuber Kevin Cuthbertson recently decided to take action.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But all of these tropes, from the beard to the villain, are predicated on the idea that sexuality and desire are always legible on the body.
    Kelly Foster Lundquist, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • As Sportico has detailed, many of these cases have come up short, including because courts have found the VPPA concerns information that would be decipherable to an ordinary person—like a list of videos someone watched—whereas interpretation of cookies requires technology and expertise.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The luxury of listening to recordings is that an opera need not have a decipherable plot or a plausible setting to give pleasure.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Make your vehicle visible to others both ahead of you and behind you by using your low-beam headlights since this means your taillights will also be on.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The aurora borealis—better known as the northern lights—is likely to be visible across the top of the United States, and perhaps even in some central states, as a strong geomagnetic storm hits the Earth across Thursday and Friday.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Not in any explicit way—my father wasn’t the cranky, alcoholic ex-minor league baseball player who drove around Los Angeles with his pool cleaning equipment in the back of his Cadillac convertible played by Matthau.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In a robot like Shakey, the map is explicit.
    Big Think, Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Since 2019, California has partnered with jurisdictions in 28 countries—touching more than a quarter of the world’s population, with a combined GDP in the tens of trillions of dollars—to cut greenhouse gases, enhance climate resilience and develop clean energy.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • How to Get Around Metro Rio’s metro is fast, clean, and air-conditioned, with stops in Ipanema and Copacabana.
    Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Readable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/readable. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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