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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Public rules, explainable decisions, standards that are visible, enforceable, and human-first.—
Jan Liphardt,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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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The idea has recently gained traction as advances in precision measurement make such tests experimentally feasible.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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The latter sound more feasible for you?—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Choose water-soluble food that can be added during your watering routine, and don’t fertilize the orchid during dormancy.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 Oct. 2025
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Soluble Fiber Makes Kiwi a Low-Glycemic-Index Food The soluble fiber in kiwi helps slow digestion and control how quickly sugar gets absorbed into the bloodstream, said Charlize Del Rosario, RD, CNSC, a dietitian at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, part of Keck Medicine of USC.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Verywell Health,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Explicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicable. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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