explicate

We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

ABC took that step after Rasmussen failed to respond suitably to a questionnaire 538 submitted asking Rasmussen to explicate its polling methodology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

"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

Mind-scientists labor to explicate us, with theories ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to neuro-evo-psycho-cognitive whatever.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 24, 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

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

The author explicates Stone’s fiction and expands its context.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2020

In this remark, Dacier explicates Aristotle's injunction that the poet should sketch the general outline of the fable before filling in episodes and naming characters, thus making it general and universal.

From The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry by Samuel Holt Monk

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

This is all explicated with fast, funny dialogue and therapy-style lessons delivered by an actual therapy dog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

"Although no laws are explicated in place to limit use or IVF or change practice, this is the time to act in order to not let it happen," Shahine said.

From Salon ● May 10, 2022

They were only implicitly or virtually what we call them, and we human witnesses first explicated them and made them 'real.'

From Meaning of Truth by William James

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

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

Precious Auntie, devastated, leaves a sheath of papers for her daughter to read, explicating the sorrowful and somber truth of their generational legacy.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022

The New York Times' Peter Baker reported the story straight for paragraph after paragraph, quoting Trump and his tweets, patiently explicating what Trump was talking about and what he meant.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2020

Mendeleeff gave the discovery fullest expression, explicating it in 1869, under the title of "the periodic law."

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams