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
The idea that this is how someone responds to pretty basic requests is sort of inexplicable.
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Marina Watts, People.com, 21 July 2025
But when quantum materials began to surprise physicists with inexplicable behaviors, physicists in the 1980s realized that some of the behaviors could be explained by a material’s wave function traveling around a curved shape.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2025
In a surprising and inexplicable way, as takeoffs and landings ceased, the feverish activity that airport grass hides under its seemingly peaceful surface came to a screeching halt.
—Fabio Morábito, New Yorker, 24 July 2025
Among the new cast, Sui Wonders’s Ava is the most direct Julie James avatar: the brainy brunette with a haunted look in her eyes and an inexplicable, undying lust for her high-school boyfriend.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 July 2025
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Marina Watts, People.com, 21 July 2025
But when quantum materials began to surprise physicists with inexplicable behaviors, physicists in the 1980s realized that some of the behaviors could be explained by a material’s wave function traveling around a curved shape.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2025
In a surprising and inexplicable way, as takeoffs and landings ceased, the feverish activity that airport grass hides under its seemingly peaceful surface came to a screeching halt.
—Fabio Morábito, New Yorker, 24 July 2025
Among the new cast, Sui Wonders’s Ava is the most direct Julie James avatar: the brainy brunette with a haunted look in her eyes and an inexplicable, undying lust for her high-school boyfriend.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexplicable
unexplainable
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The reason the earth is rotating faster on these three days in 2025 is unexplainable, leading authority on Earth rotation Leonid Zotov told Time and Date.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Aug. 2025
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Markle pops up in the first two episodes of Fringe's second season as junior FBI agent Amy Jessup, who briefly joins the Fringe Division while investigating an unexplainable NYC crash.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Inexplicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexplicable. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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