explainable

adjective

Definition of explainablenext
as in resolvable
capable of having the reason for or cause of determined investigators found that the so-called mysterious happenings at the house were entirely explainable

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Recent Examples of explainable The joint guidelines state that AI should be explainable and interpretable. — Dr. Anita Gupta, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Enterprises need systems that are explainable, accountable, and grounded in their data. — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 16 July 2026 Regulatory bodies increasingly expect documentation that demonstrates validation testing, bias mitigation protocols, and explainable outputs. — Ethan Stone june 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026 But to deny Jackson’s complexity only flattens his genius—as well as his kindness and fragility—into something manageable, explainable. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Apr. 2026 At first, the pain felt explainable. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for explainable
  1. resolvable
  2. explicable
  3. answerable
  4. feasible
  5. soluble
  6. solvable
Adjective
  • For Manus, the problem at the heart of Beijing’s objection may not be resolvable, Hendrichs added.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 12 June 2026
  • But one of the challenges here is that some of these crises are not immediately resolvable.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
Definition of resolvable
Adjective
  • Dig a bit deeper, and those four straight first-round defeats are a bit more explicable.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • That’s the only explicable reason for Australians to be riled up by comments from a guy most American fans can’t pick out of a lineup, whose most productive season came for a club literally named the Rough Riders.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Definition of explicable
Adjective
  • Russia has since replaced Wagner with the Africa Corps, answerable to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
  • Its recruit and redeploy stages require roles decomposed into explicit tasks—making what AI can augment answerable task by task.
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of answerable
Adjective
  • When the disorder arises, it’s considered a medical emergency, so running blood tests, measuring hormone levels or getting a patient into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine for tests isn’t always feasible.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 31 July 2026
  • Physicians and scientists will need to do more work to prove the precise causal linkage between the EKG finding and the risk of sudden cardiac death, but this is feasible with current tools such cardiac MRI and selective cardiac muscle biopsies.
    — Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of feasible
Adjective
  • Oatmeal with berries provides both soluble and insoluble fiber, which help soften stool and promote its passage through the intestines.
    — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 23 July 2026
  • More care, on the other hand, should be taken with fat-soluble vitamins.
    — Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
Definition of soluble
Adjective
  • Every project simply led to the next one because the next problem suddenly looked solvable.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026
  • By making some robotics challenges appear more solvable, the latest AI techniques have also inspired many more people to dedicate their professional careers to robotics.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026
Definition of solvable

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“Explainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explainable. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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