explication
Example Sentences
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Mr. Richardson’s explication of these sui generis novels is astute and highly welcome.
But the sublimity of Soper’s songful material needs no great explication — just check out her setting of Yeats’s “For Anne Gregory” in “Fragments.”
From New York Times
Bell noted that cats, like humans, have different ways of gauging affection — similar to the human "love languages," a pop psychology explication of how humans express affection in different ways that is currently in vogue.
From Salon
Here in one brief vignette about “boys” who fought for a nation they barely got to experience was an explication of why the Capitol riot was such a violation of their sacrifice.
From Washington Post
That left only hours of explication, of speechifying, conducted under House rules in the manner of a tennis match: one side serving, the other volleying in response.
From Los Angeles Times
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