These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'elucidate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Elucidate, meaning to make clear, is from the Late Latin elucidare, from the Latin prefix e-, thoroughly, and lucidus, clear, bright. 2022 Maloney has an uncanny ability to recall and elucidate moments that couldn’t have been very clear at the time.Ĭhris Vognar, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022 Now researchers are using these concepts to elucidate the workings of something even more exotic: wormholes-hypothetical tunnel-like connections between distant points in spacetime.Īdam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022 Parents that participated in the ZURU study also helped to elucidate this point. Laura Forman, WSJ, His vivid descriptions of some of the Parrotheads who have flocked to these developments elucidate Americans’ growing fascination with unconventional retirement scenarios. Pei-lin Wu, Washington Post, Pinterest declined to elucidate whether the difference was due to rounding.

2021 Authorities have published intricate flow charts to try to elucidate the various routes to tanchuang. New York Times, 3 July 2022 Although qualitative measurements are important and businesses must be profitable to stay alive, the math will not elucidate employers. Recent Examples on the Web James Bardeen, who helped elucidate the properties and behavior of black holes, setting the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics, died on June 20 in Seattle.

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