as in interpretive
serving to explain
an expository piece on the workings of the internal-combustion engine
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Recent Examples of expository
Bell and co-editor Alex Megaro limit expository information about the WTO and the anti-globalization movement to a short prologue.
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Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
5 Dec. 2025
And even though there are stretches of stagey-sounding expository dialogue, the story manages to wheel along at a clip.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
The film is obvious in telegraphing its spooky sequences and its expository ones.
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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.
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Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
5 Dec. 2025
And even though there are stretches of stagey-sounding expository dialogue, the story manages to wheel along at a clip.
—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expository
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Walking through the exhibit, visitors can read interpretive panels detailing the lives of key figures in Yuba-Sutter’s Black history.
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His father worked at the fort in its early years, and Medina himself spent three seasons repairing its adobe walls before joining the interpretive staff.
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Most of these interpretative moves work fine because they’re thought through and balanced by other moves.
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Emmie’s condition is an interpretative riddle for both her parents and the reader.
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The $4,500 out-of-pocket maximum in the prompt is illustrative — the legal in-network ceiling is $9,250 in 2026.
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Winslow Homer’s The Morning Bell (originally The Old Mill, pictured above) is illustrative of this distinction in art.
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“Expository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expository. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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