explication
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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
But you can just as easily read it as a lucid explication of Rousseau’s ideas about human nature, or as a slippery narrative told by a not-quite-reliable narrator who’s trying to get away with murder.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
More extensive explication is available via the reliable "Star Wars" online encyclopedia of your choice.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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
On the podcast, and in person, Sitman has a genial professorial vibe, spiking his learned explications with anecdotes about prominent figures, some of whom he knew personally.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
Encouraged by a prestigious academic publisher, he has embarked on a five-volume book project, “The Ellington Effect,” which explores the creative process of the native Washingtonian, with in-depth explications of representative songs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2021
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
And what he says, that he thought fit by this proclamation further to declare, does confirm it, that there are further explications, but no taking off of former restrictions.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
Vocabulary lists containing explication
Challenge, List 9
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Love's Labour's Lost
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