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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

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

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

And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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