explicate

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In his 1998 book “Paradise Lost,” Schrag sought not simply to foretell the region’s future, but to explicate how its future foretold what was in store for the country as a whole.

From Los Angeles Times

Each of the songs explicates a place and time of an incident or an idea in the lives of the protagonists.

From Los Angeles Times

The attorney continued by likening the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection to the "culmination of a certification dispute," before explicating the domino effect theory of the GOP's efforts to hinder the democratic electoral process.

From Salon

We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon

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