explanation

noun as in clarification; reason

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account, answer, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, description, evidence, example, excuse, expression, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, motive, note, report, resolution, sense, statement, story, summary

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annotation, breakdown, brief, demonstration, details, display, elucidation, explication, exposition, gloss, history, illustration, mitigation, narration, recital, rendition, showing, significance, specification, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing

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Fired feds deserve an explanation from union chiefs.

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Political survival had to be the explanation, critics charged.

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When at last an explanation comes in this atmospheric and scenic procedural, it is as much of a shock to the reader as it is to Jimmy.

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In a classified briefing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, lawmakers urged the Pentagon’s top lawyer, Earl Matthews, to provide a better legal explanation for the campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Azerbaijan’s president accused Russia of trying to cover up its role in the crash, saying that Russian authorities’ explanations—which initially faulted a flock of birds and an exploding gas cylinder—were “foolish and dishonest.”

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