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explicate

[ek-spli-keyt] / ˈɛk splɪˌkeɪt /


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We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2024

ABC took that step after Rasmussen failed to respond suitably to a questionnaire 538 submitted asking Rasmussen to explicate its polling methodology.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2024

"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

Mind-scientists labor to explicate us, with theories ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to neuro-evo-psycho-cognitive whatever.

From Scientific American Dec. 24, 2022

In 1867, nearly a decade after the publication of Origin, he began to complete a new manuscript, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in which he would fully explicate this view of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedon’s photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that you’re thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedon’s actual images.

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2020

Effectively a pastiche of St Aubyn's style, Smith's close reading illustrates and explicates simultaneously.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2018

And among many other things, he ingeniously explicates the two contrary Motions of the Sun, from East to West, and vice versa, by one onely Motion upon a Spiral, turning about a Cone.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

“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

That point is meticulously explicated by TechCrunch's Natasha Lomas in her surgical analysis.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2023

This is all explicated with fast, funny dialogue and therapy-style lessons delivered by an actual therapy dog.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2022

This phenomenon occurs for a number of reasons explicated in the more detailed findings of fact supra.

From Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania

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

Further, most of these decisions were engaged in a similar endeavor: explicating how rights relate to one another, and why the structure of constitutional law requires some unenumerated rights in order to function.

From Slate Jun. 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

This implicit or virtual presence in experience in general, Kant calls their transcendental character, and the process of explicating them is his famous Transcendental Deduction.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton




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