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adj. - Able or tending to convey information.

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  • Obviously, their head size reflected their mental capacities and her sudden unexpected appearance had overtaxed their limited abilities, both mental and communicatory.
  • The New York Times reports that voicemail, once a communicatory boon, is being abandoned by many young professionals in favor of email and text messaging.
  • He extrapolates these mechanisms to constitute bases of communicatory functions by sharing above machineries among individuals, and eventually understand neural...
  • "The riots did not originate from abroad, but were the product of internal discontent," heexplained, saying that unlike the huge police presence in the region, "restriction of...
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