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
Heartbreaking, hilarious, and terrifying by turns, while always on the razor’s edge of the inexplicable.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
A number of House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security hearings in 2023, also heard from military witnesses who testified about inexplicable encounters with UAPs and warned that UFOs pose a serious risk to national security.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Nevertheless, the requirement did provide new information to researchers, employers and some patients about the nature of health care prices — and their wide and often inexplicable variation.
—Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Well, have no fear — for some inexplicable reason, this is actually A Chorus Line, but with characters from Wicked, Wizard of Oz, and The Wiz.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
A number of House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security hearings in 2023, also heard from military witnesses who testified about inexplicable encounters with UAPs and warned that UFOs pose a serious risk to national security.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Nevertheless, the requirement did provide new information to researchers, employers and some patients about the nature of health care prices — and their wide and often inexplicable variation.
—Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Well, have no fear — for some inexplicable reason, this is actually A Chorus Line, but with characters from Wicked, Wizard of Oz, and The Wiz.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inexplicable
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“Inexplicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexplicable. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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