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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

This is related to a question of ethics, which is what is falling in that lacuna between greatness and crap that only criticism can both explicate and reify in some way.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Each of the songs explicates a place and time of an incident or an idea in the lives of the protagonists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

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

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

Women don’t really show up, except as robots, until the rise of the “It Girl” in Hollywood, a subject thoroughly explicated last year in a biography of her creator, Elinor Glyn.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023

"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

This phenomenon occurs for a number of reasons explicated in the more detailed findings of fact supra.

From Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania

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

Pinchin spends several pages explicating their personal animus, which ostensibly stems from an arcane debate over the location of bluefin spawning grounds but seems really to be about how scientists should position themselves vis-a-vis industry.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 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

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

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