explicates
- present tense form of explicate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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No one understands, explicates and empathizes with mothers and daughters, love and pain, life and all it entails, quite like Ms. Hudes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
On the Michelangelo side, “All Things Move” admirably explicates the art of the Sistine Chapel and the history of its moment.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023
Effectively a pastiche of St Aubyn's style, Smith's close reading illustrates and explicates simultaneously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2018
Instead, as its title explicates, “Gallipoli” locates its bloody third act action in a Turkish peninsula, where battalions from Australia and New Zealand battled Turks in the name of the far-off British Empire.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2017
But humanism explicates the summarizing word ‘ought’ into a mass of pragmatic motives from the midst of which our critics think that truth itself takes flight.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William