as in inexplicable
impossible to explain
a series of unexplainable weather events
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Recent Examples of unexplainable
Take it from someone who dealt with unexplainable burning for years.
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Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025
Because these systems rely on machine learning, their inner workings are often proprietary, unexplainable and beyond meaningful public accountability.
—Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the
footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
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Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025
Because these systems rely on machine learning, their inner workings are often proprietary, unexplainable and beyond meaningful public accountability.
—Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the
footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexplainable
Adjective
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In a surprising and inexplicable way, as takeoffs and landings ceased, the feverish activity that airport grass hides under its seemingly peaceful surface came to a screeching halt.—
Fabio Morábito,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
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Among the new cast, Sui Wonders’s Ava is the most direct Julie James avatar: the brainy brunette with a haunted look in her eyes and an inexplicable, undying lust for her high-school boyfriend.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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In the case of mania, a mental health symptom where patients experience irrational self-belief and happiness, models responded correctly 80% of the time.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
13 July 2025
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This tracks with an observation made by the journalist David Epstein, who writes in Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World that athletes from tiny towns have irrational levels of success.—
Henry Abbott,
The Atlantic,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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The same could be true of the recent cost estimates, but construction technology has advanced in the past half century, so that lower costs per mile are not unreasonable.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Barbara Attard, a police accountability expert, said meet and confer can last months, but beyond a year is unreasonable.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Cruel and unaccountable events pile up, overwhelming any sense of normality.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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Detractors are concerned that an unelected, unaccountable man holds so much power and is disrupting the federal government mightily from seeking to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to defunding the U.S. Department of Education.—
David Plazas,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Summer storms cause travel headaches every year, but these numbers are not unusual.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Their target area was unusual, though: a strip of lawn between the road and a fence bordering Interstate 65, where homeless people have set up about two dozen tents over the first half of this year.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
26 July 2025
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“Unexplainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexplainable. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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