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Definition of explicate
explicated
;explicating
transitive verb
1 : to give a detailed explanation of
2 : to develop the implications of : analyze logically
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Examples of explicate in a Sentence
an essay explicating a theory
the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen
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Writer-director Robin Swicord falls back on Doctorow's words to explicate the content, providing few inventive visual ideas, which wouldn't be a problem if the language Swicord was working with were musical or otherwise pleasurable to hear.
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President Lyndon B., Johnson’s tough tactics, memorialized in hundreds of White House tapes and explicated in Robert Caro’s majestic biography of a president who relished power, have become the stuff of legend.
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In his dispassionate HAL-like voice, David explicates his feelings of android superiority to ordinary humans.
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Farhad Manjoo does an excellent job of explicating the ethical, practical and political quandaries faced by Facebook in its News Feed.
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There are both philosophical and moral underpinnings to a routine where a man sticks an arrow through his head to the laughter of others, and Martin explicates this in clear and beautiful prose.
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To explicate the alphabet soup, UMTS is the standard used by major 3G carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile, while CDMA is compatible with Verizon and Sprint networks.
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Origin and Etymology of explicate
Latin explicatus, past participle of explicare, literally, to unfold, from ex- + plicare to fold — more at ply
Synonym Discussion of explicate
EXPLICATE Defined for English Language Learners
explicate
playDefinition of explicate for English Language Learners
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: to explain or analyze (something, such as an idea or work of literature)
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