inexplicable
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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
She gets into absurd arguments, bursts into frenzied laughter or inexplicable tears.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 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
When basketball season began, there was an inexplicable discrepancy between the number of ten-cent tickets sold and the considerably larger number of kids in the bleachers.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing inexplicable
A Christmas Carol
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The Scarlet Letter
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