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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for explicable
Adjective
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Issue The View from Here Will Trump use an obscure legal loophole to turn the National Guard into an anti-immigrant army answerable only to him?—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
14 June 2025
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The minutes of the convention make clear that the delegates purposely chose not to embed the auditing function in the Legislature, but rather to have the state Auditor be directly answerable to the People.—
Jeanne M. Kempthorne,
Boston Herald,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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Theoretically, a landing in 2028 remains feasible, but a more rational over/under date for NASA is probably somewhere in the vicinity of 2030.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
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Advances in battery chemistry and efficiency now make long road trips feasible in electric cars.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Sources of soluble fiber include:1 Barley Beans Fruits Nuts and seeds Oat bran Peas Vegetables Insoluble fiber speeds digestion.—
Dr. Roshini Raj,
Health,
7 Aug. 2025
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Oats also contain fiber, iron, and beta-glucan, a soluble fiber supporting heart and digestive health.4 Soybeans are an excellent source of protein.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
29 July 2025
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“Explicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicable. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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