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explicated

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past tense of explicate

as in explained

to make plain or understandable the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen

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Recent Examples of explicated 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 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

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As i4cp research analyst Katheryn Brekken explained, employees who know they’re being monitored may resort to performative behaviors, such as jiggling their mouse to appear active, rather than focusing on meaningful work.

— Adithyan RK, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Wade explained his initial defense of the statue in an essay posted to his Substack on Friday.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

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Lakshmana’s literary significance is illustrated through a contrasting temperament with Rama’s.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
All three pairs will come in custom illustrated Ronnie Fieg for Timberland packaging and will include alternate shoelace options.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026

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Anthropic researchers demonstrated this weakness by using Claude to generate seemingly innocent stories that taught other models to resist human oversight.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Patients largely avoided drug, with the whole episode culminating in investigations by the media and Congress that demonstrated improper pressure by the manufacturer on the FDA leading to the approval decision.

— C. Joseph Ross Daval, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026

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