explication
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They are both translators of the quotidian—the poet into art, something felt, the critic into explication, something understood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Estados Unidos Mexicanos thwart case-by-case determination of PLCAA’s applicability, a process that promotes careful explication of the law.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
More extensive explication is available via the reliable "Star Wars" online encyclopedia of your choice.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023
“Clock” leans too heavily on too-obvious visual metaphors, but it’s still a vivid and visceral explication of one woman’s fears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
I continue my explication of tubers, bulbs, and legumes, as if nothing has happened.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Encouraged by a prestigious academic publisher, he has embarked on a five-volume book project, “The Ellington Effect,” which explores the creative process of the native Washingtonian, with in-depth explications of representative songs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2021
Unnecessary words take up space at the expense of apt explications.
From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019
You didn’t need so many explications through scene-making.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2016
With the modern history of hoarding, we are now getting the modern, or actually postmodern, explications.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014
Pray what becomes of all their hypotheses and explications of the phenomena, which suppose the existence of Matter?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
Vocabulary lists containing explication
Challenge, List 9
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Love's Labour's Lost
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