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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

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

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

If the gene was the central currency of biological information, then major characteristics of the living world—not just heredity—should be explicable in terms of genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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