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Recent Examples of expository The film is obvious in telegraphing its spooky sequences and its expository ones. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 But the artifacts of the New Literalism seem to embrace mediation, even to double down on it with their supplementary signposts, historical snapshots, and expository tics. Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025 The first couple episodes begin with ominous cold opens new to the material, tackling the expository scientific explanation for the horrors to come in clever ways. A.a. Dowd, Chron, 10 Jan. 2023 Part of that can be attributed to the tendency to tidy up Big Conversations with pat remarks and swift expository dialogue. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for expository
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Adjective
  • The back-up dancers captured interpretive elements of Carrión’s discography and demonstrated their skill and strength while performing gravity-defying breakdancing numbers and theatrical battle scenes.
    Rosy Alvarez, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The pearl, in this analogy, is an interpretive reading.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Company examples are provided for illustrative purposes only.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This illustrative image shows antennas of the former Short Wave Issuing Center of Radio Nacional de Espana in Arganda Del Rey, near Madrid on April 1, 2023.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Expository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expository. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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