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Recorded passages from the book read aloud by de Waal will elucidate and enhance the exhibition for visitors as they pass from one display to the next.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2021

The core of Piaget is his belief that looking carefully at how knowledge develops in children will elucidate the nature of knowledge in general.

From Time Magazine Archive

Replicating Wilmut's work will elucidate what he along the way did right that nature, in these pathologies, does wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

In subsequent lectures, ladies and gentlemen, to the sexes separately, I will elucidate my theory to the full extent of its physiological laws.

From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by Windsor, William

Thank you, Mr. Morrow—and in requital for your kindness, I will elucidate you such a sample of unadulterated Ciceronian eloquence, as would not be found originating from every chimney-corner in this Province, anyhow.

From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William