as in resolvable
capable of having the reason for or cause of determined
investigators found that the so-called mysterious happenings at the house were entirely explainable
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Recent Examples of explainable
Or something far less explainable—an unseen presence stirring below the Mojave sands?
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Public rules, explainable decisions, standards that are visible, enforceable, and human-first.
—Jan Liphardt, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
But beginning in the 1970s, scientists started identifying some puzzles surrounding the Big Bang, noting several properties of the Universe that weren’t explainable within the context of these two notions simultaneously.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 24 Sep. 2025
But, as is true for most of the things that happen in Black Rabbit, there’s no easy way to explain something that appears, well, easily explainable on the surface.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
That means building systems that are explainable, compliant and rooted in real project conditions.
—Michael Pink, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Key trends include advancements in LLMs powering sophisticated chatbots, the rise of autonomous AI for workflow automation, and the democratization of AI through no-code/low-code platforms, all underpinned by critical ethical and explainable AI frameworks.
—Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Public rules, explainable decisions, standards that are visible, enforceable, and human-first.
—Jan Liphardt, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
But beginning in the 1970s, scientists started identifying some puzzles surrounding the Big Bang, noting several properties of the Universe that weren’t explainable within the context of these two notions simultaneously.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 24 Sep. 2025
But, as is true for most of the things that happen in Black Rabbit, there’s no easy way to explain something that appears, well, easily explainable on the surface.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
That means building systems that are explainable, compliant and rooted in real project conditions.
—Michael Pink, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Key trends include advancements in LLMs powering sophisticated chatbots, the rise of autonomous AI for workflow automation, and the democratization of AI through no-code/low-code platforms, all underpinned by critical ethical and explainable AI frameworks.
—Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for explainable
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Objects look wider than empty spaces of the same size, and the Hubble Tension may be resolvable if the Milky Way is in a local void.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Those old-fashioned TV-show plots with a premeditated murder committed for some explicable reason, that’s really an anachronism.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Jason Ritter plays Julian’s scenes in this episode with raw emotion, making the character’s choices more explicable, if not entirely forgivable.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Also, sources familiar with Madrid’s internal discussions say that the current hierarchy wants to ensure that decisions such as hiring or firing the coach and player transfers would always be made by the board, which is ultimately answerable to the socios.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Co-ops are, by comparison, free agents, answerable to their customers who double mostly as their regulators.—
Llewellyn King,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Industry acceptance of aluminum hulls and lightweight composite structures has helped too, reducing energy demand and making electrification feasible for larger vessels.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
6 Nov. 2025
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Such prolonged downtime is not feasible for a commercial power plant.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Vitamin D for Strong Bones Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin.—
T'Keyah Bazin,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
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SulfurSolve aims to avoid inefficiencies by using chemically stable carbonate ions to keep iron soluble and reactive at alkaline pH levels.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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But, despite the time that passes without a suspect in custody growing by the day, Garrett said that does not make the case less solvable.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
30 Oct. 2025
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The good news is that most of the problems raised within our study are solvable.—
Ann Kellams,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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