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While the brothers have largely retreated from public view this week, they have expounded on their philosophy in interviews over the past two years.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022

That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meursius, as well as Camerarius, have expounded This, as if Sophocles surviv’d Euripides six Years.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.

Of all the ideas which I have expounded, not one was sifted by the Committee; I might even say that not one was discussed.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

What though I have expounded nothing new,     And traced, I trow, unworthily the old?

From Vacation Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.