inexplicable

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Speculation about why Barak and Labor might opt for the inexplicable is rife:

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  1. adjective Difficult or impossible to explain or account for.

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  • What he finds inexplicable is the total lack of eyeballs, which ought to leave a trace somewhere within the skull even in case of such a violent impact. —  karmalised
  • Often these glimpses of the future are fragmentary, inexplicable, and strange, which leads this reporter to assume that the "many universes" theory of cosmology must be true. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • You've been trained to handle the inexplicable, armed with experimental high tech weaponry, and given full executive authority to end the crisis by any means necessary. —  Latest Articles on LaptopLogic
  • Speculation about why Barak and Labor might opt for the inexplicable is rife: —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • The buy makes a lot more sense than eBay's recent inexplicable, and expensive, buys. —  The Register
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  1. = French inexplicable = Spanish inexplicable = Portuguese inexplicavel = Italian inesplicabile, from Latin inexplicabilis, that cannot be unfolded or loosed, from in- privative + explicabilis, that can be unfolded: see explicable.
 

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/ɪnˈɛksplɪkəbl/
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