explainable

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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Adjective
  • 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
  • An extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws, and is therefore attributed to a divine agency?
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These special prosecutors could investigate and charge high-ranking executive officials but were not answerable to the president.
    Anastasia Boden, National Review, 4 July 2025
  • After all, the president is answerable to the ballot box.
    Alex Vatanka, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Adjective
  • The value here is easy to see; had there been no incentive, those projects might not have been feasible at all.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • This project, if deemed feasible, would include a fitness center, community dining, commercial kitchen, meeting rooms, among other amenities.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • In the gut, soluble fiber mixes with water to form a gel-like substance.
    Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 9 July 2025
  • Research shows that soluble fiber, especially, can nourish the microbes that keep your intestines functioning normally.
    Mara Santilli, SELF, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • In this framing, Earth’s challenges become just another set of engineering problems, solvable by recreating terrestrial conditions elsewhere.
    Dr. Alex Gold, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Traditional startups often begin with a market gap, but AI ventures require a deeper layer of validation: Is the problem solvable with AI?
    Rohit Anabheri, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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“Explainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explainable. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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