explicable
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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
But, as Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times persuasively argued Wednesday, Trump's psychology makes it explicable.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025
What vague narrative there is comes across as barely explicable.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024
The supernatural aura of the season so far may well be explicable, tied to the fears and anxieties of a community that spends the winter padding around in the dark.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2024
Living physiology should be explicable in terms of physics, biophysicists argued—forces, motions, actions, motors, engines, levers, pulleys, clasps.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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