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Idiom

make sense

Meaning

To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Your explanation makes sense to me.”

“The instructions were confusing at first, but they finally made sense after I read them twice.”

“While the proposal seemed chaotic at first glance, the underlying logic began to make sense once the team clarified their long-term objectives.”

Examples

simple

“Your explanation makes sense to me.”

contextual

“The instructions were confusing at first, but they finally made sense after I read them twice.”

complex

“While the proposal seemed chaotic at first glance, the underlying logic began to make sense once the team clarified their long-term objectives.”

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