as in inexplicable
impossible to explain
a series of unexplainable weather events
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Recent Examples of unexplainable
Declassified documents revealing a United States military aircraft was previously struck by an unknown flying object is raising eyebrows as experts point to other unexplainable sightings suggesting otherworldly technology flying within the country’s airspace.
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
A couple goes on a drive through the New Hampshire forest, bathed in an unexplainable light.
—Literary Hub
july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Strange and unexplainable things happen on the show.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 30 June 2025
For months, her doctors had dismissed her symptoms as exaggerated, psychosomatic, or unexplainable.
—Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
A couple goes on a drive through the New Hampshire forest, bathed in an unexplainable light.
—Literary Hub
july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Strange and unexplainable things happen on the show.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 30 June 2025
For months, her doctors had dismissed her symptoms as exaggerated, psychosomatic, or unexplainable.
—Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexplainable
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And the book’s bracingly straightforward descriptions of often inexplicable behaviors and thought processes, become the hard, stark edges of a sculptural black-and-white photography that is all the more mysterious for apparently having nothing to hide.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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The Saints' inexplicable decision to trade their entire draft class to select running back Ricky Williams with the fifth pick of the 1999 NFL Draft.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The roll call of people across the decades who have had access to nuclear weapons includes many who are considerably less rational than the irrational rest of us.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Justice Department in its June 2024 report on problems with policing in Phoenix found that police delayed medical assistance to people who appeared to be incapacitated as a result of the use of force by officers and used unreasonable force on people who had already been wounded by officers.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Investors had initially feared that ASDA’s undercuts would lead to market leaders Tesco and Sainsbury’s having to lower prices to an unreasonable point in order to maintain their market shares.—
John Choong,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In a free society, the people who enforce the law should never be faceless or unaccountable.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Transparency And Governance Autonomous doesn’t mean unaccountable.—
Abakar Saidov,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Because our mulch is rubber, this seemed unusual, and out of caution, the guardian was called immediately.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Routh, who is representing himself, has filed unusual motions requesting strippers and a golf round with the president.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Unexplainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexplainable. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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