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inexplicable

[in-ek-spli-kuh-buhl, in-ik-splik-uh-buhl] / ɪnˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ˌɪn ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /


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"All indications were that this happened, but it did not, and that is inexplicable", he said.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Rosa Padhilete, a Franciscan nun who came from Naples, said she felt an "immense, inexplicable joy" seeing the remains.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Skarsgård: One of the great things with cinema is it can touch on all the things that are inexplicable, that you cannot say in words.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

She gets into absurd arguments, bursts into frenzied laughter or inexplicable tears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

I meditated wonderingly on this incident; but gradually quitting it, as I found it for the present inexplicable, I turned to the consideration of my master’s manner to myself.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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