explication
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Explication of Us’ plot should stop around that point, to maximize the thrills of this sometimes sickeningly twisty ride.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2019
Carl Icahn was a philosophy major at Princeton, where he wrote a senior thesis titled “The Problem of Formulating an Adequate Explication of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning.”
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2018
Among somnambulists of this class Alexis is one of the best known, and has left us an account of many experiments in his Explication du Sommeil Magn�tique.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
A curious feature of this octavo edition of 1701, which I have, is, "An Explication of Some Words of less Common Use For the Benefit of the Common People."
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse
It is likely that in alluding to him in the "Prefatory Explication" mentioned, Mr. Antrobus disguised what was already obscure, and that "Mr. George" of the "troublesome Talk of the Inn-people" is an abbreviated pseudonyme.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward
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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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