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
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
Not everyone is explicable or easily defined, nor should they be.
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022
Robert Boyle asked: And how will it be prov’d, that the Omniscient God, or that admirable Contriver, Nature, can exhibit Phaenomena by no wayes, but such as are explicable, by the dim Reason of Man?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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