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- adjective That cannot be
explained ;inexplicable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not to be accounted for or explained
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many people have relegated this subject to the area of the ridiculous but certain unexplainable facts remain and a carefully screened net owes much to the testimony of Canadians.
No title provided. 1955
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Her magical appearances always made him feel trapped in a fairy tale where the unexplainable was the order of the day.
Web of the Romulans M. S. Murdock 1990
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He added that it was "unexplainable" that thousands of prisoners escaped from prisons over the weekend.
Looters included undercover Egyptian police, hospitals tell Human Rights Watch Leila Fadel 2011
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He added that it was "unexplainable" that thousands of prisoners escaped from prisons over the weekend.
Looters included undercover Egyptian police, hospitals tell Human Rights Watch Leila Fadel 2011
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In Nascar, he claims that officials throw "unexplainable" caution flags to allow favored drivers to catch up.
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Zuma called the delay in announcing the results "unexplainable," and said "it cannot be supported."
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Once again there is an "unexplainable" and a highly improbable descrepancy between exit polling and balloting.
Princeton University Reveals How the GOP Steals Election 2008
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But we can put just about anything into math now a days (my friend has found god in numbers, numbers that confuse me, but he will try to explain when he has it all written down) and we can explain the "unexplainable".
misssio Diary Entry misssio 2005
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THE WEIRD STORY owes its interest to the innate love of the supernatural or unexplainable which is a part of our complex human nature -- the same feeling which prompts a group of children to beg for
Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett
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It is this minimal version of their proof that I have always had in mind - and independently found - when I argued that the "unexplainable" probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics is both necessary and sufficient to preserve special relativity.
The Reference Frame 2010
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