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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  • Like every member of the General Assembly, Stewart essentially is an independent contractor answerable to the voters, not an employee who can be fired or have their pay docked by the House leadership.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
  • But all of this avoids the challenges of a magical realism where questions about the purpose of poetry, theater, political resistance, life and legacy are answerable only by dying.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
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  • Fortunately, more reasoned minds, notably George Washington realized that such aspirations were not feasible.
    John Baldoni, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • By the 1980s, oil production had become less feasible and, in 2011, the Petroleum Club shut its doors but, in the meantime, institutional wealth from oil was being reinvested in the decaying city to help revivify it.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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  • Oat Bread Oat bread is bread made from oats, which are a good source of fiber, including a type of soluble fiber called beta-glucan.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 20 May 2025
  • When the soil is submerged underwater, arsenic in the ground becomes soluble and the plant’s roots can mistake the arsenic for nutrients and absorb it, said Andrew Meharg, the chair of plant and soil science at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025

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