as in explains
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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The below-ground theme park, as historian Ashleigh Androsoff explains, offers tours purporting to tell two local stories.—
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Star Andrew Garfield explains why the characters make things worse for themselves.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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Gatsby simply couldn’t have existed without Long Island, and the prominence of the novel’s location was noted from the day of publication, as Anne Margaret Daniel illustrates in her article on the author and his relationship with the New Yorker magazine.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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The footage illustrates the easy trust and solidarity among the various parents, who appeared to have a tacit agreement that the neighborhood more or less belonged to the kids.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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The announcement clarifies Bordeaux's return to active wrestling following her WWE exit.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Proposition 411 clarifies the city manager’s role.—
Maritza Dominguez,
AZCentral.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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There’s been a misguided assertion that what’s happening with ICE is only a Latino issue, but ICE’s bombardment of both Black and Brown communities in Chicago demonstrates otherwise.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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But Costco also demonstrates the limitations of fighting political battles through a store.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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