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
Cognet’s analytical documentary adopts the stance of an investigating historian to explicate the pictures, which were made and smuggled out at mortal risk.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022
This was a little unfortunate, the topic being one close to his lordship's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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