explicate
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clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explain, expound, get across, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle
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Consequently, if Mueller had recommended obstruction charges against Trump based on the legal analysis explicated in Volume II of the report, then the Justice Department would have rejected the recommendation and the legal analysis. — Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, "How Mueller’s Lawyers Spun the OLC Guidance on Indicting a Sitting President," 28 July 2019 And investment guy Adam Seessel explicates the risks of buying shares of Chinese Internet juggernaut Tencent. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, "Can Anyone Fix the DMV?—Data Sheet," 25 July 2019 The content of their conversation, combined with internal memos released and explicated by an anonymous internal whistleblower, were meant to demonstrate a pervasive and insidious left-wing bias at Google. — John Hirschauer, National Review, "Google Crusades for ‘Fairness’," 3 July 2019 In March, Whaley explicated the basics of quantum control of biological systems to a gathering of high school teachers at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, "In Pursuit of Quantum Biology With Birgitta Whaley," 30 July 2013 After spending thousands of words explicating the plight of Asians attempting to make it in New York, Yang spells out his contempt for the entire enterprise. — Jon Baskin, The New York Review of Books, "Invisible Men," 4 Apr. 2019 Millennia ago, mathematicians explicated the rational solutions to polynomials whose highest exponent is less than 3. — Quanta Magazine, "Mathematicians Shed Light on Minimalist Conjecture," 9 July 2013 His ability to explicate how war culture can absorb antiwar pronouncements is particularly striking. — Matt Gallagher, WSJ, "‘On War and Writing’ Review: The Rifle and the Pen," 24 May 2018 Here the authors celebrate Blackness and all of its hues while explicating the tensions between being seen and unseen all at once. — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, "TEACHING FOR BLACK LIVES," 10 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'explicate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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