explication

It is in explication of his pleasant ideas that Mr. Epley really shines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

“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

Throughout the day, staffers would be summoned to his office for long, analytical explications.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2020

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

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

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