explicate
verb (used with object)
to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
explicates
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present tense formof explicate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
Each of the songs explicates a place and time of an incident or an idea in the lives of the protagonists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
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
Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi" explicates this duality nicely: there is paradise, and there are parking lots, and never the twain shall meet.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2020
It hangs on a virtual definition, and explicates it.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
