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Kris is also a bit of a nervous wreck, though the character is scripted with an unfortunate mix of pedestrian mumbliness and tin-eared therapeutic explication that Ms. Einbinder struggles to transcend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

“We hope that the report’s explication of the issues,” he added, “might be useful a century from now.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

With the modern history of hoarding, we are now getting the modern, or actually postmodern, explications.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

I find Burt’s lucid, insightful explications of poems energizing: they make you want to discover more of that poet’s work.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2012

But these historical developments present themselves simply either as solemn promulgations and explications, or as private theological speculations.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan