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Mr. Meslow does an excellent job explicating the ensuing tensions between ABC and the showrunners, which would ensure that the program was always a deeply flawed translation of its creators’ vision.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Pinchin spends several pages explicating their personal animus, which ostensibly stems from an arcane debate over the location of bluefin spawning grounds but seems really to be about how scientists should position themselves vis-a-vis industry.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2023

Further, most of these decisions were engaged in a similar endeavor: explicating how rights relate to one another, and why the structure of constitutional law requires some unenumerated rights in order to function.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2023

But to physicists bent on explicating those fundamental laws, black holes are a Coney Island of mysteries and imagination.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

When the things are true in several senses, the not explicating in what sense I mean the words is not a criminal reservation....

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry