explicates

verb

present tense third-person singular of explicate
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for explicates
  1. explains
  2. illustrates
  3. clarifies
  4. demonstrates
Verb
  • Here, The Athletic explains who York is, his background and his relationship to Leeds.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The album, Cole explains, became as much about the support surrounding heartbreak as heartbreak itself.
    — Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of explains
Verb
  • The episode illustrates a less visible part of keeping older military aircraft flying.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • That, Manuel says, illustrates the class divide that has been so ingrained in the Philippines.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of illustrates
Verb
  • As Rankine clarifies in Triage, the pain of this moment is not exclusive to Black Americans.
    — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The first clarifies that its PLX product does not provide law enforcement agencies with geolocation data, and the second says that the company has reached out to the complaint's authors to ask that the complaint against Penlink be withdrawn.
    — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of clarifies
Verb
  • IonQ’s partnership with Sandia National Laboratories also demonstrates its increasing national-security relevance.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The research also demonstrates the JWST is more than capable of studying the dispersal of gas and dust around individual infant stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of demonstrates
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“Explicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicates. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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