How to Use explicate in a Sentence

explicate

verb

• But the term’s meaning was (and remains) opaque and has never been fully explicated.
  — Joshua Green, The Hive, 17 July 2017
• As numerous scholars and thinkers have explicated, that notion is too simple.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
• The author explicates Stone’s fiction and expands its context.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• To explicate this sense of random overlap, Auster gives us four parallel versions of Archie.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2017
• To say more would spoil this film’s abundant surprises, and vainly attempt to explicate much that is mysterious.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2017
• At the base of our consciousness, all a novelist is is somebody who's trying to explicate the human condition.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Mangold’s goal was to make a film worthy of the iconic hero and the movie star embodying him — and, perhaps, explicate his own feelings about the world passing him by.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 June 2023
• What can be said about Queen Bey that hasn’t already been said, done, sang, texted, tweeted, explicated, unpacked, imagined?
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 11 Sep. 2017
• Here the authors celebrate Blackness and all of its hues while explicating the tensions between being seen and unseen all at once.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• There normally isn’t any doubt that the expense claims are valid, but the IRS loves to impose record-keeping foot faults too lengthy to explicate.
  — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 13 July 2021
• Kane credits the show’s cast and crew for explicating to her why Pelia would, say, request that the Enterprise vent plasma out of the warp nacelles.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Far from explicating this less-is-more paradox, the EPA’s 170-page report does not even acknowledge it.
  — Marlo Lewis, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
• Trump’s more outspoken critics, for their part, have sought to explicate what exactly makes DeSantis so attractive.
  — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
• Rob Dunn steers our attention toward the biota under our noses as part of a broader project to explicate the circumstances that prompt new life forms, and adaptive behaviors, to appear.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• 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.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
• As researchers, Harris and Coleman explicate the many Black character cliches in modern horror that we were all conditioned to live with and love.
  — Malik Peay, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
• His particular focus was in explicating the thoughts of the great Chinese sage Confucius as they were interpreted over the centuries.
  — Douglas Martin, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• His paragon, surprisingly, was Adorno, who, notwithstanding his mandarin prose, often explicated his ideas on radio and television.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• The exhibit mostly circumvents contextualizing the architectural details of the office, and rather aims to explicate the man who worked within it.
  — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026
• Related Articles To explicate this sense of random overlap, Auster gives us four parallel versions of Archie.
  — David L. Ulin, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2017
• In the century after Sade’s revival, a shocking number of intellectuals fell under his spell, explicated him, and defended him.
  — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
• After spending thousands of words explicating the plight of Asians attempting to make it in New York, Yang spells out his contempt for the entire enterprise.
  — Jon Baskin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2019
• The songs, when not explicating the wisp of a story, describe varieties of cat, such as the Gumbie Cat and the Railway Cat, while the cast, on-screen as on-stage, have cat ears, fur, and tails.
  — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
• Each of the dozen circus acts is nominally inspired by a tarot card, cursorily explicated by the show's cunningly naive hostess, Divinity Price.
  — Chicago Reader, 26 July 2017
• There’s plenty of writing on motorcycle culture, and motorcycle outlaws, and biker symbolism, but seldom does an author feel a need to explicate the literal, baseline appeal of the pastime.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Yet the generation that knows Jim Crow America only from hearsay ought to know what Belafonte explicates in this aggrieved, damaged, nonpareil persona.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• Farhad Manjoo does an excellent job of explicating the ethical, practical and political quandaries faced by Facebook in its News Feed.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Long passages in Comey’s thesis are also devoted to explicating the various sorts of pride that Niebuhr argued could afflict human beings — most notably, moral pride and spiritual pride, which can lead to the sin of self-righteousness.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• The critic Richard Schickel appears to explicate a version of auteur theory as a way of praising famously independent-minded directors, like Capra and Welles.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Gender presentation as a theme is suggested, rather than explicated, by the yin-yang survival modes pursued by Lady and her oldest friend Pinky (Amanda Oruh), the other girl in the opening sequence.
  — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026