as in unexplainable
impossible to explain
an inexplicable desire for ice cream at two in the morning
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Recent Examples of inexplicable
This was the country’s deadliest air crash since 2001, and the tragedy seemed inexplicable, given how unusual such civilian air accidents have become.
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Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2025
With action springing from the investigation of a high school girl’s mysterious murder in a Washington lumber mill town, the weekly ABC show plumbed disquieting, theretofore taboo subject matter and made the inexplicable a fixture of modern narrative television.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
After two Mahomes completions, including a seemingly inexplicable 25-yard pass to wide open Kelce in the middle of the field, Harrison Butker made a game-tying 49-yard field goal as time expired.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Due to bots requesting OTPs without follow-through in registration, developers and product managers are left grappling with inexplicable disparities between actual registered and paying users.
—Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2025
With action springing from the investigation of a high school girl’s mysterious murder in a Washington lumber mill town, the weekly ABC show plumbed disquieting, theretofore taboo subject matter and made the inexplicable a fixture of modern narrative television.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
After two Mahomes completions, including a seemingly inexplicable 25-yard pass to wide open Kelce in the middle of the field, Harrison Butker made a game-tying 49-yard field goal as time expired.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Due to bots requesting OTPs without follow-through in registration, developers and product managers are left grappling with inexplicable disparities between actual registered and paying users.
—Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Inexplicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexplicable. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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