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exegesis

[ek-si-jee-sis] / ˌɛk sɪˈdʒi sɪs /
NOUN
interpretation
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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

One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism was the profound and uniquely American connection between theories of constitutional interpretation and methodologies of religious exegesis.

From Slate May 8, 2024

Compactness is a hallmark of her writing, made possible by both hard graft and her gifts for exposition and exegesis, which enabled her to digest and repackage huge quantities of material.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2024

Round and round Poirot goes, as does the circling camerawork, before he performs the reliably satisfying triple-axel-twisty feat of exegesis in front of the suspects.

From New York Times Feb. 10, 2022

I provided an exegesis, not as brief as it might have been, of why at the moment I found the college satisfactory for my purposes.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Bradford provides similarly interesting exegeses of autobiographical echoes in other Highsmith novels, but this generally valuable material gets lost in an endless parade of lovers and equally endless litany of Highsmith’s appalling personal conduct.

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2021

In the end, Ms. Okpokwasili’s often academic-sounding exegeses of her work become repetitive.

From New York Times Jul. 11, 2017

You’ll find it in Mad Men exegeses, literary criticism in the New Yorker, all sorts of movie reviews, theater criticism, and music reviews.

From Slate Nov. 1, 2015

In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness.

From The New Yorker Oct. 6, 2015

M. Le Hir's superiority was in a great measure due to his profound knowledge of the German exegeses.

From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan




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