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verb

past tense of explain

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Recent Examples of explained
Verb
Another teacher explained to me that I can be paid 50% of my husband’s Social Security benefit instead. Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025 The new exemption for technology can be partially explained by the how the supply chain works, but also reinforces where the greatest pain will be felt. Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 12 Apr. 2025 Foster explained that the concept for the exhibition arose after several smaller projects related to flowers received extremely positive responses. Jillian Rayfield, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 University of Chicago Economics Professor Casey Mulligan explained in 2023 congressional testimony that federal rules finalized in 2021 and 2022 yielded additional costs of $5,000 per household per-year for rules finalized in 2021 and 2022. Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025 In countering those arguments, Blue Cross witnesses explained that the insurer was committed to paying for Louisianans’ health care and keeping costs low. T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 Apr. 2025 The singer then explained the sentimental reasoning behind the pub's name, Lancaster Lock. Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025 So if there’s a breach, there’s nothing to steal, Suman explained. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 12 Apr. 2025 Prosecutors have not disclosed a motive, said which school or schools were targeted, or explained how Compres Rodriguez is connected to New Jersey. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for explained
Adjective
  • The confirmed death toll had reached 58 as of late Tuesday afternoon, Méndez said.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The confirmed death toll had reached 44, Méndez said in the early afternoon.
    Martín Adames Alcántara and Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • However, in a video on Out magazine’s Instagram, GLAAD’s Tony Morrison clarified its meaning.
    Lexi Carson, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2024
  • However, Wheal clarified that proposing at someone else's wedding is a different matter entirely.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • We, the players (and the audience) are left to judge whether his actions were justified.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Therefore, an Artemis Alliance is justified as a necessary enforcement mechanism.
    Andrew Hanna, Time, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But Trump remains defiant about the tariffs, much like Putin remains determined to continue Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The Bears signed Grady Jarrett in free agency to be a starter on the interior of the line but remain determined to create a deep rotation up front.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • That trend has continued into the 2020s, but was perhaps most infamously illustrated in a 2018 story by writer Jesse Singal in The Atlantic, which even outed and misgendered its cover model.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 27 Mar. 2025
  • The stamp was illustrated by Dale Stephanos and designed by art director Greg Braden.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The analyst attributed Voya’s underperformance, in part, to the asset manager’s 2024 full-year earnings miss.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Previous studies have attributed persistent medical conditions astronauts on the ISS have reported, such as skin rashes, cold sores and some atypical allergies, to their altered immune systems.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Where Sun is a dabbler, Geffen is an established connoisseur.
    Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
  • These graduates become equipped to develop new businesses within established corporations, acting as intrapreneurs who can build high-potential corporate ‘unicorns’ in emerging industries.
    Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Seattle’s pursuit of veteran guard Will Fries in free agency demonstrated a willingness to be aggressive to address the interior of the line, and this would fit that approach.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • This was more history for the SEC, which demonstrated its superiority in November and has backed it up to date.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025

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