Thesaurus results for EXPOSITORY

expository

adjective

ik-ˈspä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē

Definition of expository

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 There’s also good dialogue—witty and world-building, instead of merely expository. — Ian MacKenzie, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026 Berling’s Henri, especially, suffers from the film’s disinterest in anyone aside from its central figure; a key scene between him and Gabrielle lays out their history in clumsy expository snippets. — Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026 Yet the book medium, which favors the expository side of Paglen’s practice, can make his artworks feel subordinate to his research. — Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026 Because Zendaya plays young women, these women still have parents, and the actors cast to play her parents—which is to say her history, the expository reasons for her Blackness—typically flit in and out of the background, there to signify and do nothing else. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for expository

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Cadet will work with architect Rodney Leon, who is also of Haitian descent, and who will advise on the interpretive writing and symbolic elements of the statue and its lighting and siting.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
One-on-one, face-to-face discussions trigger key interpretive understandings that are authentic to each stakeholder.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of interpretive

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The effects of such abstemiousness are less clear, though a pair of new movies point in two very different interpretative directions.

— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
The nonprofit is dedicated to promoting forest conservation efforts through exhibits, with interpretative trails around the site that venture through lush forest canopies.

— Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026

Definition of interpretative

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These examples are illustrative of the fact that athletes already take their fertility and menstrual cycles into consideration, Carson says.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
The stunning indictment of Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota last week marked another illustrative example of the position’s outsized power, according to one top lawmaker.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2026

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