inexplicability
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By weirdness I mean infinite improbability and inexplicability.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022
Then, a month later, his pontificate was over — the shortest reign since the early 1600s — and the Catholic world was left to make sense of the inexplicability.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021
From the annals of inexplicability: A pristine In-N-Out burger somehow appeared on the ground in Queens, at least 1,500 miles from the nearest outpost of the beloved West Coast burger chain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2019
He heard song in conflict and argued that the stop-start stumble of modern life was, for all its inexplicability and despair, necessary and promising.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2013
Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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