explicate

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We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

"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

She argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 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

He drew an elaborate diagram to explicate what he took to be Bodin’s theory, although his drawing is quite unlike Bodin’s own.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton