elucidated

past tense of elucidate

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Recent Examples of elucidated An announcement released in May by the US Department of the Interior elucidated the conclusions reached by the museum. News Desk, Artforum, 20 Aug. 2026 And in many cases, the same justifications elucidated by Douglass remain. Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 The group further elucidated that the program should chiefly prioritize reuse and repair, with retail and community-based organizations responsible for promoting and providing visibility for repair services. Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Mar. 2026 Concluding his monologue, Stewart also elucidated the ironic, frustrating parallels between the lack of legal accountability for those named in the Epstein files and the administration’s law-and-order crackdown toward immigration. Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2026 But Democrats’ goals, as elucidated at No Kings rallies, have not changed. David Weigel, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025 The foreign minister’s comments were confusing, but his deputy elucidated them in much clearer terms about the government’s self-conception. Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025 The material enhances performance The team elucidated the material’s mechanism through a series of experimental analyses, including solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy, electron spin resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elucidated
Verb
  • In another instance, Kuechly explained how coaches teach to tackle high inside a team’s own 5 so an opponent can’t fall forward into the end zone.
    Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Rodgers explained, adding that his new girlfriend was both offline and didn’t watch The Pat McAfee Show.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Neither the athlete-plaintiffs nor the NCAA has clarified how many roster spots are unoccupied in the 2026–27 season.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The pair had already been dating for quite some time before that, which Swift previously clarified in a Time interview.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But for Hatfield, the months-long legal battle illustrated the importance of Missouri’s referendum process, a mechanism for direct democracy that allows citizens to collect signatures and challenge state laws.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The idea might seem clever, as if the artist has cannily illustrated how the lovey-dovey notion of romance and family is hokey, brain-dead, false.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Though Lock and Fleury aren’t Darnold and Kubiak, Wednesday night’s game demonstrated that Seattle is not interested in making terribly many overarching changes from last year’s general offensive approach.
    Andrew Destin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The rendezvous demonstrated skills that could be useful to a variety of customers down the road, according to the company.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Elucidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elucidated. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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