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- verb Present participle of
elucidate .
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Examples
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Republicans are do a superb job in elucidating the republican path while stating clearly and factually why the democrats are out of control.
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I think that perhaps implicit in your argument, but worth elucidating, is that our electorate is a fantastically ignorant lot — so yes, “… the vast majority of policy decisions have no impact whatsoever on voter behavior …”
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Then spend as much time as you can afford in elucidating the subject.
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Then spend as much time as you can afford in elucidating the subject.
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Then spend as much time as you can afford in elucidating the subject.
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In the end, all drama is about family, a character muses, and while the narrative occasionally lapses into melodrama in elucidating this theme, Oates spins a haunting story in which nature and humans are equally rapacious and self-destructive.
The Falls: Summary and book reviews of The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates. 2004
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Flory has done pioneer research in elucidating the formation of polymer molecules.
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Karrer has thus succeeded in elucidating completely the nature of two of the vitamins, hitherto considered as so mysterious, and one of them is now produced artificially.
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This proved to be a very useful tool in elucidating chemical structures in the complicated steroid series, where his name is associated with the hydrocarbon 3'-methyl-1,2-cyclopentenophenanthrene.
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Imagination, descriptive capacity, and metaphysical insight are active in elucidating the theme; and the result is a generally pleasing and impressive work, marred, however, by
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