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by jointpdf 1563 days ago
They probably meant:

explicate — to give a detailed explanation of

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explicate

It seems like a relatively newer word in its usage: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...

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I read it more as "made explicit" rather than "explained"