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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to explain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being unfolded, explained, or made clear or plain; capable of being accounted for; admitting explanation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
explained .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being explicated or accounted for
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Examples
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Something more in the line of the explicable was a phenomenon observed in 1879 and in 1881 by Schiaparelli.
Mars 1895
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Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe ..... blog. taragana.com "Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers."
WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals 2010
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Now the Madhya Pradesh forest minister himself says the big cats were poached and has asked for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe ..... blog. taragana.com "Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers."
WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals 2010
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It is one thing to deny that any such things happened … but to claim that they happened AND were just ordinary "explicable" occurrences … will THAT get God mad!
GetReligion 2009
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"Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers."
TreeHugger 2009
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In other words, we can conclude that all known adaptations are, in principle, explicable by natural selection.
Crossroads 2009
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In other words, we can conclude that all known adaptations are, in principle, explicable by natural selection.
Crossroads 2009
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Nelson: None of us could have missed the statement in italics right at the beginning of the book, which Denton places in his introductory “Note to the Reader”: “The cosmos is a seamless unity which can be comprehended ultimately in its entirety by human reason and in which all phenomena, including life and evolution and the origin of man, are ultimately explicable in terms of natural processes” (p. xviii).
Blast From the Past 2010
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In other words, we can conclude that all known adaptations are, in principle, explicable by natural selection.
Crossroads 2009
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In other words, we can conclude that all known adaptations are, in principle, explicable by natural selection.
Crossroads 2009
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