explainable

Definition of explainablenext
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 Third, establish explainable trust signals for data quality and reuse. Susan Laine, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Enterprises need systems that are explainable, accountable, and grounded in their data. Nia Bowers, USA Today, 16 July 2026 Regulatory bodies increasingly expect documentation that demonstrates validation testing, bias mitigation protocols, and explainable outputs. Ethan Stone june 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026 But to deny Jackson’s complexity only flattens his genius—as well as his kindness and fragility—into something manageable, explainable. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
  • For Manus, the problem at the heart of Beijing’s objection may not be resolvable, Hendrichs added.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 12 June 2026
  • But one of the challenges here is that some of these crises are not immediately resolvable.
    NBC news, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
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  • Dig a bit deeper, and those four straight first-round defeats are a bit more explicable.
    Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • That’s the only explicable reason for Australians to be riled up by comments from a guy most American fans can’t pick out of a lineup, whose most productive season came for a club literally named the Rough Riders.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • Russia has since replaced Wagner with the Africa Corps, answerable to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
  • Its recruit and redeploy stages require roles decomposed into explicit tasks—making what AI can augment answerable task by task.
    Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Adjective
  • The suit maintains that the commission’s denial does not identify any adverse impact to a wetland function or value, nor any feasible and prudent alternatives to address the Commission’s reasons for denial, in violation of state law, Conn.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Getting real, not simulated, data on the vest’s performance would mean sending it onboard an Orion spacecraft all the way to deep space and waiting for a solar storm to happen, which is hardly feasible.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Fertilize plants in the garden once per month during the active growth phase (typically spring) using a balanced, water-soluble fertilizer formulated for succulents.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, dietitians often point to oats as one of the few foods naturally high in this specific soluble fiber.
    Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 7 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Adding quantum-safe signatures to a blockchain is a solvable engineering problem, according to Coinbase.
    Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Fortunately more partners and resources are coming together around a solvable problem.
    Jose Cruz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Explainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explainable. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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