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 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 Financial markets often overreact, but this Trump slump is perfectly rational and explicable. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 Gender, like art, Peters argues, is not always explicable. Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for explicable
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Adjective
  • OpenAI is currently completely controlled by its nonprofit board, which is purely answerable to the company’s founding mission: ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 June 2025
  • Whoever is managing the Vatican Bank is ultimately answerable to a U.S. citizen.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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  • Transferring the manufacturing models used in emerging economies to the U.S. simply isn't feasible.
    Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • Measuring fetal testosterone exposure would require continuous monitoring of levels in the amniotic fluid, which isn’t feasible.
    Julia Ries, Health, 24 June 2025
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  • Research shows that soluble fiber, especially, can nourish the microbes that keep your intestines functioning normally.
    Mara Santilli, SELF, 27 June 2025
  • There are two types of dietary fibers: soluble fiber, which mixes with water to create a gel that slows digestion per the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
    Korin Miller, Flow Space, 25 June 2025

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“Explicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicable. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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