tell why

Example Sentences

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One of Brown’s financial innovations, today called DuPont analysis, involves breaking ROE down into its constituent factors to tell why it is high or low.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

If that had anything to do with differences in their social structures, studying their communication systems could help us tell why modern ants succeeded where others failed.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 13, 2024

"He's one of the finest character actors of his generation, when you're standing at the monitor watching him perform you can tell why because he's so in control, so highly aware and present."

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024

The tot had become one of several hundred seemingly healthy U.S. toddlers and preschoolers each year who suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

I couldn’t tell why everyone else began cheering—the realization that what Miles had said was probably very vulgar?—but their voices shook the floor.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia