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
Unlike Newsom’s veto of the gas stove bill, the reasoning here is at least intelligible.
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Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
Further, unlike his predecessors, whose jargon-laden speeches were intelligible only to party insiders, Xi has used his appearances to speak to the people, tapping into popular nationalism and presenting his reforms as the key to China’s rise.
—Peter Martin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2014
The findings have led some researchers to suggest that RNA may be a molecular lingua franca that transcends traditional taxonomic boundaries and can therefore encode messages that remain intelligible across the tree of life.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
However, there have been many a case outside of tax in which the Court has held up that delegation standard as satisfying the intelligible principle standard by looking at the scope of the purpose of what Congress was up to.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
Further, unlike his predecessors, whose jargon-laden speeches were intelligible only to party insiders, Xi has used his appearances to speak to the people, tapping into popular nationalism and presenting his reforms as the key to China’s rise.
—Peter Martin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2014
The findings have led some researchers to suggest that RNA may be a molecular lingua franca that transcends traditional taxonomic boundaries and can therefore encode messages that remain intelligible across the tree of life.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
However, there have been many a case outside of tax in which the Court has held up that delegation standard as satisfying the intelligible principle standard by looking at the scope of the purpose of what Congress was up to.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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