explication

Mr. Richardson’s explication of these sui generis novels is astute and highly welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

If this, one of the best and truest Ojai festivals in recent years, is meant not for explication but discovery, please do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

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

She followed that with a second surprise song similarly awash in explication: "Lana Del Rey put out a new album today," she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023

I continue my explication of tubers, bulbs, and legumes, as if nothing has happened.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Throughout the day, staffers would be summoned to his office for long, analytical explications.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2020

Unnecessary words take up space at the expense of apt explications.

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

Of what value is a piece of art standing on its own without these explications?

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

Here, as I imagine, I looked all the questions that lacked answers; for Captain Forney took it in hand to fit them out with explications.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde