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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

More extensive explication is available via the reliable "Star Wars" online encyclopedia of your choice.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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

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

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

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

Here, as I imagine, I looked all the questions that lacked answers; for Captain Forney took it in hand to fit them out with explications.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde