explication
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Mr. Richardson’s explication of these sui generis novels is astute and highly welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication.
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
You didn’t need so many explications through scene-making.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2016
Both explications are tenable; and each is of value as portraying the status and duty of professing servants of the Master in all ages.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
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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