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Six example sentences with explicate, each labelled with its topic.
Her seminar spends a whole term explicating four pages of Spinoza, sentence by sentence, until the argument stands clear.
Philosophy
The paper explicates why small rewards can undo the motivation they were meant to strengthen, tracing forty years of experiments.
Psychology
Before anyone could test it, Maxwell had to explicate the field concept in equations that few physicists then understood.
Science
The critic explicates a single stanza across thirty pages, weighing every comma and line break for hidden meaning.
Literature
The opinion explicates the doctrine of fair use in detail, tracing it from a nineteenth century case to streaming.
Law
Her lecture explicates comparative advantage step by step, using two farmers, two crops, and a great deal of chalk.
Economics
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