What's the difference between inexplicable and inextricable?

Inexplicable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
  • (3) Our tolerance for this bizarre and inexplicable system of reward is the most extreme but far from the most damaging effect of the hold that the City has on the country.
  • (4) This lag in T. pisiformis prevalence was largely inexplicable to us.
  • (5) Gerard Piqué slid in and inexplicably handled Marcelo’s cross.
  • (6) It is easy understand that its appearance should turn out to be a complication in the treatment of hypoparathyroidisms or in vitamin D resistant rickets, but its persistance as a purely iatrogenic diseases is at present inexplicable.
  • (7) An inexplicable finding was a preponderance of right nipple with tumour.
  • (8) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
  • (9) In addition to the possible role of the renin system there remain inexplicable situations in its regulation that cannot be explained by ACTH and renin.
  • (10) The Hollywood Reporter reported that , since April, Hail-Hydra.com has inexplicably redirected to the president’s profile page on the White House website.
  • (11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
  • (12) As with all Yang's art, one is both captivated and bewildered by its progression of memorable images and inexplicable incidents.
  • (13) But Bean said it was inexplicable that Vithlani received more than $12m and that most of this was channelled via two offshore companies, one in the British Virgin Islands and the other in Panama.
  • (14) Inexplicably, instead of rolling or walking the ball into an empty net, Giggs lofted a shot over the bar.
  • (15) Parents are often the last ones to spot the radicalisation of their children; a view that might seem inexplicable at first, but makes sense when you consider the context in which such radicalisation takes place.
  • (16) Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase activities were intermittently, and inexplicably, increased for months after the transplant.
  • (17) Clinical and X-ray exploration revealed a still asymptomatic small-cell bronchial carcinoma, so that the otherwise inexplicable skin lesions made an acrokeratotic paraneoplastic syndrome of the Bazex type seem most likely.
  • (18) The concentrations of both oestrone and oestradiol remained consistently low for 10 years after the menopause, but oestradiol concentrations inexplicably increased in the last two decades, with levels at the lower end of normal range for reproductive women in six patients.
  • (19) Analysis of the records of skin cancers for Bristol and Oxford in England showed that during the first decade of this period incidence and mortality for the skin carcinomas, basal cell and squamous cell, fell in line with theory; but both incidence and mortality for melanoma inexplicably rose.
  • (20) I save it for last,” he told the New York Times earlier this year, in an article exploring China’s inexplicable devotion to the tune.

Inextricable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
  • (a.) Inevitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
  • (2) Caring is inextricably bound to the belief system and practice of nursing.
  • (3) Moreover, the development of neoliberalism in the UK is inextricable from the politics of Britishness.
  • (4) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
  • (5) HCA and low-intensity conflict activities will therefore be discussed as one topic, as they were inextricably intertwined.
  • (6) In problem-based learning, process and content are inextricably linked, with the three cardinal elements being the students, the tutors, and the problems.
  • (7) They became as inextricably part of his identity as his rebelliousness, morbidity and homosexuality, all of which made up his outward and possibly inward self-image as the "outsider on the inside" that was an integral part of his work.
  • (8) It sought to examine alternative models in a context sensitive to the inextricable connections between health and society, their persistence through time, and their link to demographic changes.
  • (9) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
  • (10) Just as certain songs become inextricably associated in our minds with certain eras (before the invention of iPods, that is, after which everyone could walk around every day with all the songs in the world on shuffle), so too do silly trends.
  • (11) In Germany, brown remains a colour inextricably linked with the Nazi uniform.
  • (12) But we can do so now, at a time when keeping the UK within the EU is high on the agenda of the EU leadership and at a time when the EU narrative is currently inextricably linked to the issue of reform.
  • (13) Because cancer and aging are, thus, inextricably linked, the American Cancer Society should encourage submission of research proposals that address the mechanisms of aging and how aging alters cancer development.
  • (14) Effects on nerve cells of fields generated by remote electrodes are given primary attention, although methods for obtaining field solutions in biological media are discussed in detail only where the issue is inextricably linked to the use of a particular neural model, or relates crucially to experimental validation.
  • (15) Forty years on, and now a cross-bench peer, his name has become inextricably linked with the controversial cause of legalising people's right to be helped to die.
  • (16) Only reformists dare to say openly that bread-and-butter problems are linked inextricably to foreign policy.
  • (17) It forms part of a pair of games that are inextricably linked.
  • (18) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin , is expected to allow the issue on to the agenda for dinner, reflecting the reality that the fate of the world economy is inextricably intertwined with the risk of a Middle East conflagration.
  • (19) Scrutiny of the approach suggests that the psychopathology of these patients was inextricably intertwined with issues of racism, unemployment, poverty, and substandard housing.
  • (20) It is shown in this article that the inextricability of the mind-body problem is essentially conditioned by (apart from other factors) the (non-permissible) equating of philosophical and empirical propositions: psychic or mental = mind and somatic = soma or body.