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explicable

[ ek-spli-kuh-buhl, ik-splik-uh-buhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

explicable

/ ˈɛksplɪkəbəl; ɪkˈsplɪk- /

1550–60; < Latin explicābilis, equivalent to explicā ( re ) to explicate + -bilis -ble

Looking for the explicable in a case that seems so inexplicable is what the air crash investigators have to do.

To him who flees love, its nature is explicable; to you, who are still under its influence, it remains a riddle.

A large proportion of the good results are certainly fully explicable as the results of suggestion.

This horror is probably explicable as the result of a combination of simple horrors.

The last is well known to every penologist and explicable in general psychological terms.

Love had eyes, love had a voice that night,-love was the explicable magic lifting terrestrial to seraphic.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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