inexplicable
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Humor resonates with something individual, possibly innate and probably inexplicable inside each of us; our sense of it is something we can’t control.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Buzz Aldrin, famed astronaut from the Apollo 11 mission, said in a 1969 interview published on Friday that he saw several inexplicable phenomena on his trip to the Moon.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Denying patients a life-saving medicine for inexplicable reasons is the wrong kind of change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
In this regard, Mr. Rachel’s book exemplifies what the French controversialist Renaud Camus calls the second career of Adolf Hitler: the long hangover of inexplicable catastrophe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
Opening her eyes, she had seen his face—no, not his face, a ferocious stranger’s, pale, distorted, twitching with some insane, inexplicable fury.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing inexplicable
A Christmas Carol
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The Scarlet Letter
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