as in unexplainable
impossible to explain
an inexplicable desire for ice cream at two in the morning
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Share [Findings] Half of Algeria’s marine turtle strandings are inexplicable.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Precious returns to apply her trademark wit and common sense to get to the bottom of another confounding mystery: why a series of inexplicable misfortunes keep befalling staff and guests of a beloved hotel.
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—Christine Pride, SELF, 25 Sep. 2024
But anytime Brown seems on the verge of doing something of note with the character, Maroni has to make an inexplicable choice solely to keep the plot wheels churning.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
Unfortunately, Sophie Turner actually has a worse downward spiral than the original big-screen Jean Grey, Famke Janssen, with a storyline that awkwardly tries to mesh inexplicable cosmic energy with unobserved paranoia about female power gone amok.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 July 2024
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Precious returns to apply her trademark wit and common sense to get to the bottom of another confounding mystery: why a series of inexplicable misfortunes keep befalling staff and guests of a beloved hotel.
2.
—Christine Pride, SELF, 25 Sep. 2024
But anytime Brown seems on the verge of doing something of note with the character, Maroni has to make an inexplicable choice solely to keep the plot wheels churning.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
Unfortunately, Sophie Turner actually has a worse downward spiral than the original big-screen Jean Grey, Famke Janssen, with a storyline that awkwardly tries to mesh inexplicable cosmic energy with unobserved paranoia about female power gone amok.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 July 2024
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