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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

Even for those who have long studied her work, Prymachenko’s appeal can be difficult to explicate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 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

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

“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 Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

“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

But how Colours do, nay, how they may, arise from either of these Principles, I think you will scarce say that any has yet intelligibly explicated.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Robert Boyle

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

Those that weare with the man resolved to goe back againe, explicating that an evill presage.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson