as in explainable
capable of having the reason for or cause of determined
the mystery of those strange noises became quite explicable once we realized that a colony of bats had taken up residence
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Recent Examples of explicable
An extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws, and is therefore attributed to a divine agency?
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The economy was profoundly more explicable.
—William Tarr, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Some of them are horrendous but explicable, like Novak Djokovic beating Gael Monfils in all 20 of their meetings; Rafael Nadal’s 18-0 record against Richard Gasquet and Roger Federer’s 17-0 against David Ferrer.
—Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The economy was profoundly more explicable.
—William Tarr, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Some of them are horrendous but explicable, like Novak Djokovic beating Gael Monfils in all 20 of their meetings; Rafael Nadal’s 18-0 record against Richard Gasquet and Roger Federer’s 17-0 against David Ferrer.
—Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for explicable
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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As an attendance of 6,473 was announced over the stadium intercoms, the answers to those questions felt, if not yet answerable, more positive than negative, a shade Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 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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The low production cost makes large-scale deployment feasible.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Say an airline wants to find the best route from A to B, while there are many options, not all are feasible.—
Tasmin Lockwood,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Provides Gentle Support for Your Gut and Digestion Apples contain pectin, a type of soluble fiber that plays an important role in keeping your digestive system running smoothly.—
Julie Scott,
Verywell Health,
8 Oct. 2025
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However, including both of these fruits in your diet can help increase your intake of soluble and insoluble fiber.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Explicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicable. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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