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
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
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
God, angels, and extraterrestrials have yet to come to our assistance; yet more and more phenomena have proved explicable by the dim reason of human beings.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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