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

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

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

I continue my explication of tubers, bulbs, and legumes, as if nothing has happened.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

An economics novice, I have relied on his unbiased, splendidly presented explications of this complicated realm since I came to D.C. in 1978.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2020

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

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

The group includes professors and historians, fanboys and artists, many of whom have posted their theories online accompanied by maps, videos, and pages-long explications pleading their cases.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2012

Pray what becomes of all their hypotheses and explications of the phenomena, which suppose the existence of Matter?

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley