as in inexplicable
impossible to explain
a series of unexplainable weather events
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Recent Examples of unexplainable
Unlike traditional systems, AI can process data to generate unpredictable and unexplainable insights or decisions.
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Vivek Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
There has always been something unexplainable about the 33-year-old’s game.
—Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 4 July 2024
These are unexplainable phenomena scattered throughout the game’s world that can kill an unwary player in an instant.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
But Housewives is a living work of art that is always evolving and adding to itself — our favorite ladies keep finding new ways to get more unhinged, more unexplainable, and more unforgettable with each passing year.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2024
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Vivek Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
There has always been something unexplainable about the 33-year-old’s game.
—Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 4 July 2024
These are unexplainable phenomena scattered throughout the game’s world that can kill an unwary player in an instant.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
But Housewives is a living work of art that is always evolving and adding to itself — our favorite ladies keep finding new ways to get more unhinged, more unexplainable, and more unforgettable with each passing year.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexplainable
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The choice to center a film that primarily exists as a primer on the Gospels for young viewers around the parenting struggles of a 19th century literary figure who is not exactly at the forefront of culture is inexplicable.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
11 Apr. 2025
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Doncic was traded seemingly at the peak of his career, which made the trade even more shocking and inexplicable.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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Added to the chaos is the underlying rudimentary calculation of tariff levels that have produced wildly uneven and irrational effects on trading partners with no readily discernible policy value.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The characters are believably upset and irrational for much of the play.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.—
Seung-Whan Choi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Right now, Medi-Cal is bloated, unaccountable and failing the people it’s supposed to serve.—
Carl Demaio,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2025
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Writers who lived in the Roman Empire portrayed judges as capricious, unaccountable or swayed by menacing crowds.—
Nathanael Andrade,
The Conversation,
11 Apr. 2025
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The contract also maintains its unusual provision allowing Sanders to disclose any athletically related outside income to his superiors verbally, thus enabling him to follow NCAA bylaws while ensuring that no public paper trail is created for these earnings.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Canvas’s menu feature flavors such as Arabic coffee and karak chai and biscuits, but Al Marri also enjoys experimenting with unusual combinations, looking outside the dessert realm for ideas.—
Nicola Chilton,
AFAR Media,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Unexplainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexplainable. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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