Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a comprehensible manner; conceivably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With great extent of signification; comprehensively.
- adverb Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
comprehensible manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His English simply isn't up to the task of delivering lines comprehensibly onstage, no matter how much his sculpted body fits the bill of the role he performs.
Michael Giltz: Hero Plus Fringefest #3: Musicals Galore! Michael Giltz 2011
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His English simply isn't up to the task of delivering lines comprehensibly onstage, no matter how much his sculpted body fits the bill of the role he performs.
Michael Giltz: Hero Plus Fringefest #3: Musicals Galore! Michael Giltz 2011
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His English simply isn't up to the task of delivering lines comprehensibly onstage, no matter how much his sculpted body fits the bill of the role he performs.
Michael Giltz: Hero Plus Fringefest #3: Musicals Galore! Michael Giltz 2011
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His English simply isn't up to the task of delivering lines comprehensibly onstage, no matter how much his sculpted body fits the bill of the role he performs.
Michael Giltz: Hero Plus Fringefest #3: Musicals Galore! Michael Giltz 2011
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Indeed, the Conservatives' private focus-group work shows that Labour has comprehensibly lost the spending cuts argument, even if Labour's rhetoric far overstates the difference between the parties.
No Two Ways to Fix Britain's Budget Stephen Pollard 2011
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Mr. Kirkpatrick doesn't coddle his subject, yet he presents Mr. Zuckerberg's point of view much more comprehensibly than we have seen it before.
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My point is only that Lindelof evidently wasn't writing about magical thinking during the early years of the show, he was actually carrying it out - and Occam's razor suggests that this pure pulp show, so obsessed with its own formal features, probably wasn't carrying out a years-long inquiry into a mode of thought which only manifested comprehensibly after 100+ hours.
Lost (2004–2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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And even if things do progress quickly and comprehensibly, the minutia of an investigation isn't what's going to win Democrats votes on Election Day.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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Real news demands reality delivered factually and comprehensibly.
Obama's Press Conference on the Budget and Economic Recovery & the Media Involved 2009
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He saw the tedious task as one stone to simultaneously cash in on some of his scholarship money, quite comprehensibly learn the required material and, of course, buy a new phone.
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