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explanation

[ek-spluh-ney-shuhn] / ˌɛk spləˈneɪ ʃən /


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But there might be another, less promising explanation, according to Krinsky: The correlation between bitcoin and software stocks may simply be starting to break down.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

"Our work provides the first physical explanation of these materials while accounting for most-if not all-of their documented properties," says Rak.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Almost any explanation can be labeled race neutral in the abstract.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

At first Penelope panicked; she thought they might have somehow caught the strange moon sickness endured by Lord Fredrick Ashton, but the true explanation was simpler: The children had fleas.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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