explicate
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We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
"But I do think it's fair to say the burden is on the firm to explicate and help develop appropriate guardrails to prevent nefarious uses."
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024
Mind-scientists labor to explicate us, with theories ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to neuro-evo-psycho-cognitive whatever.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 24, 2022
There’s plenty of writing on motorcycle culture, and motorcycle outlaws, and biker symbolism, but seldom does an author feel a need to explicate the literal, baseline appeal of the pastime.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
No one understands, explicates and empathizes with mothers and daughters, love and pain, life and all it entails, quite like Ms. Hudes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
On the Michelangelo side, “All Things Move” admirably explicates the art of the Sistine Chapel and the history of its moment.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023
Yes, it provides a historical account of his time in office and explicates the policy objectives of his administration, from health care to economic recovery to climate change.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2020
Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi" explicates this duality nicely: there is paradise, and there are parking lots, and never the twain shall meet.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2020
In this remark, Dacier explicates Aristotle's injunction that the poet should sketch the general outline of the fable before filling in episodes and naming characters, thus making it general and universal.
From The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry by Monk, Samuel Holt
Then there’s a cultural element, he explicated, of “bringing in my Japanese-Midwest heritage by using an ingredient like panko, filtering it through the Italian-American-ish culinary lens.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
“What really needs to be explicated is not the plain vanilla meaning of insurrection but the whole phrase - insurrection against the United States Constitution,” Delahunty testified on Friday.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
The juvenile tone, focus on a family-friendly story and painfully explicated themes and lessons clearly indicate that this film is aimed at a younger audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
"Although no laws are explicated in place to limit use or IVF or change practice, this is the time to act in order to not let it happen," Shahine said.
From Salon ● May 10, 2022
A conjecture at the reason of these colours explicated by several Experiments and Reasons: First, by continual cleaving the Body till it become colour'd.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert
Mr. Meslow does an excellent job explicating the ensuing tensions between ABC and the showrunners, which would ensure that the program was always a deeply flawed translation of its creators’ vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
It’s perfectly OK to mention that, theoretically, traveling on a train is traveling through time, without later explicating the Einsteinian theory behind the assertion.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
But to physicists bent on explicating those fundamental laws, black holes are a Coney Island of mysteries and imagination.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
You can help guide your three-man vessel by expressing your appreciatio, and explicating exactly how meaningful to you this time spent together is.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019
When the things are true in several senses, the not explicating in what sense I mean the words is not a criminal reservation....
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
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