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The show formerly known as just “Pennyworth” returns for its third season with a subtitle so explicative that it practically dares you not to watch, after it dares you not to laugh: “The Origin of Batman’s Butler.”

“It reinforced the education I got at Swarthmore, which was very much explicative. You didn’t care who wrote a poem, you just read it,” Menaker told the Paris Review in 2014.

“It reinforced the education I got at Swarthmore, which was very much explicative. You didn’t care who wrote a poem, you just read it,” Menaker told the Paris Review in 2014.

Wolfe’s writing can oscillate between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative.

Valdez used a double explicative when asked t0 describe his initial reaction to his miss of a wide-open net in Seattle’s win at Orlando City on Sunday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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