explicate

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"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

Acosta then asked Dean to explicate what happens if Trump commits perjury, and whether he could be prosecuted for lying.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2023

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 an issue that is not going to be simple to explicate, excavate or decide,” said Commissioner Merryl H. Tisch, who suggested shelving the motion for further research.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

The evening’s speaker might be a graduate student assigned to explicate a recent paper from Europe, or a visiting luminary discussing his own work.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik