explication

They are both translators of the quotidian—the poet into art, something felt, the critic into explication, something understood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

Meanwhile, “Klinghoffer” continues to prove shocking in its explication of the roots of terrorism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

You didn’t need so many explications through scene-making.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2016

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2014

These explications have firmly established that the pure or fundamental forms of knowledge are two: the intuition and the concept—Art, and Science or Philosophy.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce