inexplicable
Things keep vanishing inexplicably from their house.
The lights inexplicably dimmed for a few seconds.
Inexplicably, the fire department was not immediately called when flames broke out.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
addled
all of a doodahidiom
all over the placeidiom
alphabet soup
at seaidiom
disarray
discombobulation
disordered
disorganization
disorganized
muddle something up
muddle-headed
muddled
mush
muzzily
unaccountable
unaccountably
unexplainable
unexplained
unsearchable

Examples of inexplicably

inexplicably
A mention of graphology in its everyday sense (394) cross-refers inexplicably to where a different, technical sense of the word is introduced (257).
It is just something that, so far inexplicably, happened.
Certainly the character-based trees in various chapters of this book give much more solid results than the often wildly inaccurate (and inexplicably trendy) distance-based approaches.
Inexplicably, the authors get the title wrong (they add an extra s), but their interpretation is disconcerting in other ways as well.
Inexplicably, the seemingly nearly depleted reserve surged almost overnight from 60 million barrels to 400 million.
If one object disappears and reappears somewhere else inexplicably, it does not pick up the same object identity.
The institutional veto plays of successive monarchs have been inexplicably understated, despite the ample evidence of them that this article draws on.
Inexplicably, to, the staple millet paste food, is spelled tot throughout the book.
Inexplicably, the captain did not even report the incident.
At the same time, recurrent numerology and imagery inexplicably link disparate textual fragments produced under widely different conditions.
Yet, inexplicably, this term causes significant diffusion to a distance three times the boundary-layer thickness.
Each inexplicably personal and individual, and yet each tied to a shared map of being in the world.
Regrettably and inexplicably, the texts are not accompanied by any analysis or even by explanatory notes.
Sometimes (inexplicably) only primary drug cost and some share of equipment costs are totaled (1).
However, when the old speaker used a new term (inexplicably breaking a conceptual pact), addressees experienced interference, delaying gazing at the target object.
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