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In his 1998 book “Paradise Lost,” Schrag sought not simply to foretell the region’s future, but to explicate how its future foretold what was in store for the country as a whole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

"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

Cognet’s analytical documentary adopts the stance of an investigating historian to explicate the pictures, which were made and smuggled out at mortal risk.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

This was a little unfortunate, the topic being one close to his lordship's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedon’s photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that you’re thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedon’s actual images.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2020

Effectively a pastiche of St Aubyn's style, Smith's close reading illustrates and explicates simultaneously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2018

And among many other things, he ingeniously explicates the two contrary Motions of the Sun, from East to West, and vice versa, by one onely Motion upon a Spiral, turning about a Cone.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg

The central frieze’s action is explicated by Latin captions and framed by upper and lower borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

The juvenile tone, focus on a family-friendly story and painfully explicated themes and lessons clearly indicate that this film is aimed at a younger audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

An Hypothesis for the explication of light by motion, indeavoured to be explicated and determined by several Reasons and Experiments: three distinguishing Properties of the motion of light.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke

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

It’s perfectly OK to mention that, theoretically, traveling on a train is traveling through time, without later explicating the Einsteinian theory behind the assertion.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

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

You can help guide your three-man vessel by expressing your appreciatio, and explicating exactly how meaningful to you this time spent together is.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019

Nothing will be lost on the score of distinctness, if we retrace, in the living sense, the footprints we have already trod in explicating the inanimate illustration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various