phenomena explicable by the laws of physics
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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As ever, the director stamps it all with his unique aesthetic preferences, which are very deliberate if not always explicable.—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024 The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren’t outwardly explicable to the people observing them.—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 23 May 2024 That has fundamentally undermined the prospect of a two-state solution, which, despite its flaws, is the best way forward to respect the explicable demand by both national communities for self-determination.—Richard English, TIME, 17 May 2024 And, the panel said, even if there were a disparate impact on Asian Americans, the plaintiff would still lose because of insufficient evidence of discriminatory intent; the policy itself was race-blind and explicable as an effort to seek diversity rather than to harm Asian Americans.—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for explicable
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borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin explicābilis "capable of being unraveled," from explicāre "to free from folds or creases, unroll, disentangle, spread out, set out in words" + + -bilis "capable (of acting) or worthy (of being acted upon)" — more at explicate, -able
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