explicate
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In his 1998 book “Paradise Lost,” Schrag sought not simply to foretell the region’s future, but to explicate how its future foretold what was in store for the country as a whole.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
"But I do think it's fair to say the burden is on the firm to explicate and help develop appropriate guardrails to prevent nefarious uses."
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
Mind-scientists labor to explicate us, with theories ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to neuro-evo-psycho-cognitive whatever.
From Scientific American • Dec. 24, 2022
To achieve that, it is more than willing to explicate Mexican and Mexican American culture for its audience every step of the way.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022
The evening’s speaker might be a graduate student assigned to explicate a recent paper from Europe, or a visiting luminary discussing his own work.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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