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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

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

Precious Auntie, devastated, leaves a sheath of papers for her daughter to read, explicating the sorrowful and somber truth of their generational legacy.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

You can help guide your three-man vessel by expressing your appreciatio, and explicating exactly how meaningful to you this time spent together is.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2019

But there, covered with alluring awe, a wall of impenetrable mystery confronts us with its baffling "Thus far, and no farther, shall thine explicating gaze read the secrets of destiny."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville