explication
Example Sentences
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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
Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing explication
Challenge, List 9
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Love's Labour's Lost
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