explicate

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ABC took that step after Rasmussen failed to respond suitably to a questionnaire 538 submitted asking Rasmussen to explicate its polling methodology.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 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

Acosta then asked Dean to explicate what happens if Trump commits perjury, and whether he could be prosecuted for lying.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2023

Mind-scientists labor to explicate us, with theories ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to neuro-evo-psycho-cognitive whatever.

From Scientific American • Dec. 24, 2022

The evening’s speaker might be a graduate student assigned to explicate a recent paper from Europe, or a visiting luminary discussing his own work.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik