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are explaining

  • present progressive
    of explain.
    explain
    verb (used with object)
    to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible.

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This thinking has been a key part of how many analysts are explaining the stock surges.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

And two 19-year-old British riders competing in the event and making a significant impact on road cycling globally are explaining who inspired them to take up the sport.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

Then people get to watch you, as a writer, awkwardly trying to explain how those nerds are explaining the joke.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024

“Hardly any teacher is in a position to understand the mistakes,” he says, “and correct them while they are explaining in the class.”

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

You cannot help the Old Man so long as you are explaining in undertone and whisper, by gesture and suggestion, by thought and mental attitude, that he is a curmudgeon and his system dead wrong.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell