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inexplicable

[in-ek-spli-kuh-buhl, in-ik-splik-uh-buhl] / ɪnˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ˌɪn ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /


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Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP Murray told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the errors were "inexplicable" as formal letters instructing councils to start preparing to hand over evidence "should have happened quite automatically".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

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

Skarsgård: One of the great things with cinema is it can touch on all the things that are inexplicable, that you cannot say in words.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

She gets into absurd arguments, bursts into frenzied laughter or inexplicable tears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

None more so than Ira: the transformation in her was as astonishing as it was inexplicable.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya




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