explication

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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

“Clock” leans too heavily on too-obvious visual metaphors, but it’s still a vivid and visceral explication of one woman’s fears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

The study of philosophy was thus seen as a preparation for the study of theology because both disciplines were concerned with the explication of authoritative texts.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

In between his explications of Stevens’s poetry, Mariani does tell a few good stories.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2016

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

The group includes professors and historians, fanboys and artists, many of whom have posted their theories online accompanied by maps, videos, and pages-long explications pleading their cases.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2012

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