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as in clarifying
to make plain or understandable
a pamphlet that explains the medical procedure in language that any layperson can understand
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as in justifying
to give the reason for or cause of
can you explain your very odd behavior at the wedding reception?
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Recent Examples of explaining
In between explaining the Capex increase, executives on Wednesday's call played up AI wins from the quarter.
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Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2026
Now, Mikayla offers some clarification on what was actually going on in the video, explaining to PEOPLE that this video was taken 24 hours after baby Callum was born.
—Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
Tataviam Land Conservancy board member and Cultural Bearer Kevin Nuñez led a historical discussion, explaining that his people of the village Japchibit are the original Indigenous people of the San Gabriel Mountains, and his family has a traceable lineage with Japchibit traceable through 1765.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
This is a wordier way of explaining the obvious downstream effects of paying for better players.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
To do this effectively requires providing detailed background information, displaying data in the context of other research, and explaining how the results impact the field at large.
—Kirstin R.w. Matthews, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
Therefore, telling the story in graphic form on behalf of Ukrainians themselves, explaining the preconditions for Russia’s attempts to erase Ukraine as a sovereign country and Ukrainians as an ethnic group, became extremely relevant.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
The singer-songwriter revealed the news of his upcoming project on social media, posting the album cover and explaining his process in putting together the record.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
An operations lead spends an hour explaining a system limitation to a customer who wanted someone to just fix it.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2026
Now, Mikayla offers some clarification on what was actually going on in the video, explaining to PEOPLE that this video was taken 24 hours after baby Callum was born.
—Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
Tataviam Land Conservancy board member and Cultural Bearer Kevin Nuñez led a historical discussion, explaining that his people of the village Japchibit are the original Indigenous people of the San Gabriel Mountains, and his family has a traceable lineage with Japchibit traceable through 1765.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
This is a wordier way of explaining the obvious downstream effects of paying for better players.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
To do this effectively requires providing detailed background information, displaying data in the context of other research, and explaining how the results impact the field at large.
—Kirstin R.w. Matthews, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
Therefore, telling the story in graphic form on behalf of Ukrainians themselves, explaining the preconditions for Russia’s attempts to erase Ukraine as a sovereign country and Ukrainians as an ethnic group, became extremely relevant.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
The singer-songwriter revealed the news of his upcoming project on social media, posting the album cover and explaining his process in putting together the record.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
An operations lead spends an hour explaining a system limitation to a customer who wanted someone to just fix it.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for explaining
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Within days of the executive order, OPM issued formal government-wide implementation guidance clarifying how agencies should identify and reclassify covered positions.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Aides said the Pretti death was such a clarifying moment for their bosses that inaction was no longer an option.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
29 Jan. 2026
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And that could be the difference between justifying a refinance application in today's economic climate or having to wait for the Fed to take action again later this year.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Who gets so far at work without thinking through — and long since justifying — the consequences?—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
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According to the company, the system allows multiple humanoid robots to function together autonomously, illustrating how teams of robots could be deployed and managed in real-world industrial environments, such as manufacturing facilities.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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Jelou And The Rise Of Transactional AI One company illustrating this shift is Jelou, which recently raised $10 million to expand its transactional AI platform across the Americas.—
Ilona Limonta-Volkova,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Instead of rationalizing it, seeing it from his shoes and changing your tactics with him.—
E. Alex Jung,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
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Aeffe is rationalizing its retail network and earlier this month the board approved the early termination of the rental contract signed with two real estate firms, Colloportus and FQuattro, respectively controlled by designer Alberta Ferretti and her brother, executive chairman Massimo Ferretti.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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Two recent novels go behind the walls of anchorite and lunatic cells in different centuries and for different purposes, yet wind up demonstrating how women forced by circumstance behind walls influence the lives of others into the future.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Industry pioneer Candela is aiming to change minds, demonstrating that its foiling e-ferry can go the distance and make use of existing or mobile chargers along the way.—
Stefan Ionescu
February 04,
New Atlas,
4 Feb. 2026
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Still, the predatory hawks that used to feed on those birds haven’t returned this year, Moore said, attributing their absence to avian flu.—
Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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Lord of the Rings franchise director Peter Jackson joined the billionaires club in November 2021, with Forbes attributing his financial status to selling a stake in his company, Weta Digital, for $975 million.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
18 Jan. 2026
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His priorities include supporting domestic energy production, lowering and simplifying federal taxes, and enforcing existing immigration laws.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
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Platform Positioning and Accessibility The company emphasizes the platform’s ease of use compared with typical crypto exchanges and its goal of simplifying entry into digital assets, particularly for those traditionally daunted by complexity.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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Without the organic give-and-take of a real therapeutic exchange, patients lose the sense that someone is not merely interpreting your words but genuinely trying to understand you.—
Brianna Hardcastle,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Feb. 2026
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Some people are interpreting this as a pointed allusion to Italians’ post–World War II rejection of the monarchy after its support for fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Explaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explaining. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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