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"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

This is related to a question of ethics, which is what is falling in that lacuna between greatness and crap that only criticism can both explicate and reify in some way.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 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

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

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 ● Oct. 22, 2024

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

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

And among many other things, he ingeniously explicates the two contrary Motions of the Sun, from East to West, and vice versa, by one onely Motion upon a Spiral, turning about a Cone.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

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

Women don’t really show up, except as robots, until the rise of the “It Girl” in Hollywood, a subject thoroughly explicated last year in a biography of her creator, Elinor Glyn.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 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

Here, church dogma has explicated what was implicit in revelation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

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

Further, most of these decisions were engaged in a similar endeavor: explicating how rights relate to one another, and why the structure of constitutional law requires some unenumerated rights in order to function.

From Slate ● Jun. 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

“I think all the body cameras are going to be key in explicating exactly what was said and what was done.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2020

But there, covered with alluring awe, a wall of impenetrable mystery confronts us with its baffling "Thus far, and no farther, shall thine explicating gaze read the secrets of destiny."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville