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- adverb In an
explicative way.
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Examples
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"We are here," explicatively intones Shurik's chillingly hooded and rifle-bearing silhouette to his genuflecting hostage, as Nina, clad in some sort of traditional dress complete with filmy white Persian headscarf, looks on from the regal security of Saakhov's living room armchair, "to judge you by the law of the mountains because you have sought to bring dishonor upon us.
AFF Doublethink Online Douglas Robertson 2008
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