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explicates

  • present tense form of explicate (3rd person singular).

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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