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The phrase "virtually unintelligible" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe something that is almost impossible to understand or comprehend.
Example: "The audio recording was of such poor quality that it was virtually unintelligible."
Alternatives: "nearly incomprehensible" or "almost impossible to decipher."
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A few of the characters' cockney accents are so thick as to be virtually unintelligible.
Alas, all the effort has rendered his accent so indistinct as to be virtually unintelligible.
To the untrained ear, his patter between songs is virtually unintelligible.
Natives speak an obscure language, Soqotri, that is virtually unintelligible to mainlanders.
Not a few are so full of sociological jargon as to be virtually unintelligible.
Because written texts are almost entirely divorced from oral pronunciation, sentence length and sentence complexity can be carried to extremes, as may be observed in some legal and legislative documents that are virtually unintelligible if read aloud.
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It was almost unintelligible through her sobs.
That can make conversation almost unintelligible.
These dialects are virtually mutually unintelligible, so that when speakers of different Sami groups meet they generally converse in Finnish, Swedish, or Norwegian.
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