explanatory
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The format typically featured a handsome photograph of an empty, book-lined study, under which ran an explanatory account by the absent author identifying those elements particularly conducive to his or her creative process.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
To be sure, the predictor is not a short-term market-timing tool; its greatest explanatory power exists at the 10-year horizon.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026
Shaffer succeeds in this regard, but the wordy play grows cumbersome in its final explanatory stages.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
"We propose three explanatory hypotheses for discussion," says Güllich.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
He would have been fascinated by its implications, moved by the tenderness of its labor, and struck by its strange explanatory power.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing explanatory
Common Core Grades 7–8, List 4
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Common Core Grade 6, List 4
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 4
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