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explicable

[ek-spli-kuh-buhl, ik-splik-uh-buhl] / ˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /
ADJECTIVE
explainable
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At the beginning, he shows off a kind of narrative gun, by warning that “strange and not entirely explicable things are nowadays happening in the world of wind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

What vague narrative there is comes across as barely explicable.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Dr Marnerides said in his opinion there was "no evidence that a natural disease would explain his death" and concluded that death was "explicable on the basis of air embolism".

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023

Not everyone is explicable or easily defined, nor should they be.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022

In the colt’s eighteenth start, for no explicable reason, he finally won, clocking a sterling time.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand