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
Why on earth Wolves weren’t wise to this most basic of Forest ploys, launching a counter via Gibbs-White, is pretty inexplicable.
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Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Soon, all five friends are making their escape into the ocean — a choice that seems smart on paper but in the scene reads as laughably inexplicable.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Half of Algeria’s marine turtle strandings are inexplicable.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
However, one of them — a yellow-eyed wolf — saved her, creating an inexplicable bond between them.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
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Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Soon, all five friends are making their escape into the ocean — a choice that seems smart on paper but in the scene reads as laughably inexplicable.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Half of Algeria’s marine turtle strandings are inexplicable.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
However, one of them — a yellow-eyed wolf — saved her, creating an inexplicable bond between them.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
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