explication

They are both translators of the quotidian—the poet into art, something felt, the critic into explication, something understood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

But the sublimity of Soper’s songful material needs no great explication — just check out her setting of Yeats’s “For Anne Gregory” in “Fragments.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

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

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

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

Of what value is a piece of art standing on its own without these explications?

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018

In between his explications of Stevens’s poetry, Mariani does tell a few good stories.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2016

You didn’t need so many explications through scene-making.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2016

Every day added its impressions, its hints, its subtle explications to the growing understanding.

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells