inexplicability
Americannoun
plural
inexplicabilitiesExample Sentences
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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
Players waited on the court for the game to begin, then inexplicability headed to the locker rooms.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2020
On the retreat, as during a trip, I saw life’s inexplicability and improbability, which I like to call “the weirdness.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 5, 2018
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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