exegesis
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In all this exegesis, there are at least four myths and one important truth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
First came Joel Thompson’s “To See the Sky,” obscurely subtitled “an exegesis for orchestra.”
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
Because he decided he wasn’t obligated to, based on his own personal exegesis of whatever rules he chose to consider that one day.
From Slate • May 3, 2023
In such a widening gyre, Mounk’s calm mix of storytelling, political theory and social psychology exegesis, peppered with some charming insights, has a comforting seriousness.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022
As Martin J. S. Rudwick puts it, "No geologist of any nationality whose work was taken seriously by other geologists advocated a timescale confined within the limits of a literalistic exegesis of Genesis."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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