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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

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

But given artistic director Thomas Jolly’s idiosyncratic opening show, set upon the Seine, one would have expected something interesting, if not on its own explicable.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 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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