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Mr. Meslow does an excellent job explicating the ensuing tensions between ABC and the showrunners, which would ensure that the program was always a deeply flawed translation of its creators’ vision.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But to physicists bent on explicating those fundamental laws, black holes are a Coney Island of mysteries and imagination.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

“I think all the body cameras are going to be key in explicating exactly what was said and what was done.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2020

The New York Times' Peter Baker reported the story straight for paragraph after paragraph, quoting Trump and his tweets, patiently explicating what Trump was talking about and what he meant.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2020

When the things are true in several senses, the not explicating in what sense I mean the words is not a criminal reservation....

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry