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Kris is also a bit of a nervous wreck, though the character is scripted with an unfortunate mix of pedestrian mumbliness and tin-eared therapeutic explication that Ms. Einbinder struggles to transcend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Estados Unidos Mexicanos thwart case-by-case determination of PLCAA’s applicability, a process that promotes careful explication of the law.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025

She followed that with a second surprise song similarly awash in explication: "Lana Del Rey put out a new album today," she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023

“Clock” leans too heavily on too-obvious visual metaphors, but it’s still a vivid and visceral explication of one woman’s fears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

The study of philosophy was thus seen as a preparation for the study of theology because both disciplines were concerned with the explication of authoritative texts.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Throughout the day, staffers would be summoned to his office for long, analytical explications.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2020

Unnecessary words take up space at the expense of apt explications.

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

With the modern history of hoarding, we are now getting the modern, or actually postmodern, explications.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

All morning we were treated to the loftiest explications of how legal thinking is far too complicated for Americans to consume without their brains imploding from the effort.

From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2011

In regard, however, to the implications and explications of this perfection of a village, primarily and to be just, Broadway is, more than any one else.

From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James