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explication

[ek-spli-key-shuhn] / ˌɛk splɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Explication of Us’ plot should stop around that point, to maximize the thrills of this sometimes sickeningly twisty ride.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2019

Carl Icahn was a philosophy major at Princeton, where he wrote a senior thesis titled “The Problem of Formulating an Adequate Explication of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning.”

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2018

An Attempt for the Explication of this Experiment.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

Sometimes got by the Explication of their Names.

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by Locke, John

But as for the full Explication of these Matters, I must refer them to Time, which discovers all things.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph




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