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Neither my smartphone nor laptop would load any webpages, or at least not anything intelligible.† (source)intelligible = capable of being understood
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The advanced algebra was still indecipherable—it came from a world beyond my ability to perceive—but the trigonometry had become intelligible, messages written in a language I could understand, from a world of logic and order that only existed in black ink and on white paper.† (source)
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They had not learned until it was far too late—in their teens—and so they mastered everything but the production of intelligible speech.† (source)
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"I'll come with you, Sam," she finally whispered, so quietly that her words were barely intelligible.† (source)
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The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men reached the bank.† (source)
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(His voice sinks to an unintelligible mumble, over which rises the gabbling voice of Mrs. Soames) Mrs. Soames. (source)unintelligible = not capable of being understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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My mouth opens, but no intelligible sound comes out.† (source)intelligible = capable of being understood
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Buz brought out, just intelligibly, "You weren't astonizzhed when I told you about burying a girl in feathers, or pouring syrup over them—"† (source)intelligibly = in a manner that is capable of being understood
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Guards stalked them, clubs or baseball bats in their hands and rifles with fixed bayonets over their shoulders, making menacing postures and yelling unintelligibly.† (source)unintelligibly = in a manner that is not capable of being understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligibly means not and reverses the meaning of intelligibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I began to think he had disappeared inside this wailing noise and if I could join him in his lost and suspended place we might together perform some reckless wonder of intelligibility.† (source)
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These mingle into something unintelligible.† (source)unintelligible = not capable of being understood
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Our illegal radio, turned too low to be intelligible, was broadcasting the news.† (source)intelligible = capable of being understood
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Or the horse itself, a white and beautiful one, was on its way over, approaching to ask some favor of him, a request called softly and intelligibly upward-which he was not decided yet whether to grant or deny.† (source)intelligibly = in a manner that is capable of being understood
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They talked, cried out unintelligibly, lugged him toward the trees.† (source)unintelligibly = in a manner that is not capable of being understood
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Some things which had seemed monstrous to her were gathering intelligibility and even a natural meaning: but all this was apparently a branch of knowledge in which Mr. Casaubon had not interested himself.† (source)
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