explaining

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Deaver and Maldonado have crafted a white-knuckle ride, although its forward momentum is undercut at times by overexplaining in clumps of exposition rather than allowing the reader to catch up more organically.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

"The show has always excelled at visual storytelling, trusting its audience to notice and interpret the various symbols and mirrored images without overexplaining things," he said.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2022

The monster metaphor is plainly laid out in “Hatching,” but crucially, the film resists overexplaining, allowing details to remain mysterious, implying and suggesting and allowing the viewer to speculate and imagine.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2022

They also lead to a story that gets stuck overexplaining for much of its 2 1/2 hours.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2015

“There was other stuff, too,” I continued, overexplaining.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool