as in inexplicable
impossible to explain
a series of unexplainable weather events
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Recent Examples of unexplainable
Back in 2021, the Housewives Institute came up with the 100 most unhinged, unexplainable, and unforgettable moments in the 15 years that the franchise had been on the air up to that point.
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2024
After a massive bitcoin facility started operating in the town of Granbury, people of all ages began to experience a range of unexplainable medical issues, including hypertension, chest pain, heart palpitations, migraines, vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and panic attacks.
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
This fixation helps explain what is otherwise unexplainable — his bizarre obsession with changing the maps.
—S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Unlike traditional systems, AI can process data to generate unpredictable and unexplainable insights or decisions.
—Vivek Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2024
After a massive bitcoin facility started operating in the town of Granbury, people of all ages began to experience a range of unexplainable medical issues, including hypertension, chest pain, heart palpitations, migraines, vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and panic attacks.
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
This fixation helps explain what is otherwise unexplainable — his bizarre obsession with changing the maps.
—S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Unlike traditional systems, AI can process data to generate unpredictable and unexplainable insights or decisions.
—Vivek Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexplainable
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Oh, an inexplicable Rube Goldberg machine of death?—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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But through a series of inexplicable events, the clinic was completely empty on Saturday when the car exploded outside.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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It's forged in the quiet, difficult moments when doing the right thing seems irrational.—
Victoria Vitchenco,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Rejecting his challenge in February 2024, Britain’s High Court said the decision to change Harry’s security status was neither irrational nor procedurally unfair.—
Henry Austin,
NBC news,
2 May 2025
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At this juncture, a 10-7 regular season record isn’t unreasonable.—
Charley Walters,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2025
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Are my feelings unreasonable? – Mother-of-the-Groom Gloom Dear Mother: Your feelings are completely reasonable.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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An unelected, unaccountable private citizen had unilaterally thwarted a military operation in an active war zone while exposing the fact that governments had remarkably little control over crucial decisions affecting their citizens and national security.—
Ian Bremmer,
Foreign Affairs,
13 May 2025
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MACs serve as an unaccountable middleman between patients and doctors, driving up costs and worsening patient outcomes.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
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Listen to this article The Rent Guidelines Board lowered the range of potential rent increases for some 2 million New Yorkers in an unusual redo vote Tuesday — a move that comes as the issue of freezing rents has taken center stage in the contentious mayoral race.—
Téa Kvetenadze,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
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In an unusual step earlier this month, five former directors of the National Weather Service signed an open letter warning that the Trump administration’s cuts to the weather service and its parent agency NOAA may endanger lives.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2025
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“Unexplainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexplainable. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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