clarify
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Sunday’s result helped clarify the Dodgers’ once-muddy playoff picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
In 2025 — after Walker’s death — the state passed a law meant to clarify what constitutes a risk of death.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
This fresh attempt to clarify his position is styled by Mr. Fukuyama as a memoir, but it is better seen as a series of meditations—the meditations, in truth, of a misunderstood man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The findings may also help clarify a long-running debate surrounding experiments with ZrTe5.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
There is very little that anyone could say to clarify what happened next.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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The proposed regulations unveiled this week “really clarifies a lot of what employers were waiting for,” said Dorian Smith, leader of Mercer’s law and policy practice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s not that the clothes were ever disappointing, she clarifies — it’s just that the anticipation was such a big part of the process.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Locke, 22, jokes that a lot of the time people are just handed producer credits, but clarifies "we actually put some effort in and took it seriously".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The bill, which clarifies the regulatory structure around digital assets, is making slow progress through Congress.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
With no recognition, George clarifies, “We are who we are. Forget the morning and move on.”
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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The answer that finally clarified what I’d been seeing came a few minutes later.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
He quickly clarified that he wasn’t avoiding AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Department of Recreation and Parks has not responded to the Cultural Heritage Commission’s letter, he said, or clarified whether the design has changed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mr. Obama clarified that there is no evidence of aliens, “unless there’s this enormous conspiracy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The subprime mortgage market had a special talent for obscuring what needed to be clarified.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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All in all, it was a clarifying week for pseudo-events, scripted to generate coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
By clarifying what the inductive effect does and how far it extends, the researchers hope other influences on molecular behavior can also be understood more accurately.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
“And that was very clarifying for me. When you are the element that gets that story told, it takes on an importance and urgency.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The commission's Affordable Housing Act aims to provide cities with legal cover, clarifying when authorities can take action without falling foul of EU single market rules.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
She interrupts me a lot, sometimes asking me to repeat something I said, and sometimes it’s with another question aimed at clarifying how and why certain things happened.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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