as in inexplicable
impossible to explain
a series of unexplainable weather events
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Recent Examples of unexplainable
Janet Planet appears to hew more closely to realism, but Baker allows in moments that are unexplainable.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
An Ebony Alert allows law enforcement agencies to inform the public about the suspicious or unexplainable disappearance of a Black woman or Black person in the hope that they are found quickly.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
As the exhausted team works against a tight deadline to secure their bonuses, each member begins to encounter the unexplainable.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
There are also multiple tools available on the market for explainability in machine learning, which can make regular, unexplainable models more meaningful to users.
—Vinay Kumar Sankarapu, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
An Ebony Alert allows law enforcement agencies to inform the public about the suspicious or unexplainable disappearance of a Black woman or Black person in the hope that they are found quickly.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
As the exhausted team works against a tight deadline to secure their bonuses, each member begins to encounter the unexplainable.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
There are also multiple tools available on the market for explainability in machine learning, which can make regular, unexplainable models more meaningful to users.
—Vinay Kumar Sankarapu, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexplainable
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Which brings us back to the Russian dark ops and the inexplicable restraint of the Biden White House over helping Ukraine.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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And many Democrats were stunned by the Harris campaign's inexplicable embrace of unpopular Bush-era Republicans like former Rep. Liz Cheney as a stunt to attract support from moderate and former GOP voters.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
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To prevent yourself from imposing irrational penalties, set up house rules that outline logical consequences in advance.Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 12 Dec. 2024
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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One is sort of an independent, unaccountable, unelected FBI, like the one that Hoover ran.Cameron Joseph, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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In every period, the essence of politics has been that a tin-pot tsar who wants to arrogate to himself the right to personal, unaccountable power needs to intimidate the honest people who are not afraid of him.Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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While most incidents have come in New Jersey, other states, including Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, have also reported unusual drone activity to law enforcement.Maya Homan, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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But when physicians look at a pool of unusual test results, the chaotic sequencing pattern could flag whether something more serious may be going on and the mother could benefit from additional testing, Bianchi said.Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Unexplainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexplainable. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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