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The director also valorized Aaron Sorkin, the leading expositor of modern control-room intrigue with shows like Sports Night and The Newsroom.—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024 Allowing Executive agencies to create the very crimes they are tasked with enforcing effectively turns them into the expositor, executor, and interpreter of criminal laws. . . .—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024 As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.—Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019 Stephen Jay Gould was a famous expositor of the inverse position, which emphasized chance and contingency.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2011
Word History
Etymology
Middle English expositour, from Anglo-French expositur, from Late Latin expositor, from Latin exponere
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