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inexplicable

[in-ek-spli-kuh-buhl, in-ik-splik-uh-buhl] / ɪnˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ˌɪn ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /


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In this regard, Mr. Rachel’s book exemplifies what the French controversialist Renaud Camus calls the second career of Adolf Hitler: the long hangover of inexplicable catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Rosa Padhilete, a Franciscan nun who came from Naples, said she felt an "immense, inexplicable joy" seeing the remains.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Today, I bring your attention to the Colorado Supreme Court, which this month reaffirmed an inexplicable quirk of its excessive sentencing jurisprudence that preemptively extinguishes constitutional rights for entire categories of people.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

The report said the "lack of urgency" on the part of all four governments in the early part of 2020 was "inexplicable".

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

The Sierra Madre mountains are so stark and impossibly tall that they fill me with an inexplicable panic.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez




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