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

She said a short way into that conversation "it became clear to me as a clinician that these were not clinically explicable collapses".

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2025

What vague narrative there is comes across as barely explicable.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Robert Boyle asked: And how will it be prov’d, that the Omniscient God, or that admirable Contriver, Nature, can exhibit Phaenomena by no wayes, but such as are explicable, by the dim Reason of Man?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton