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- noun Plural form of
explanation .
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One of the main explanations is that airport security, flawed as it is, makes such attacks much more difficult than they were pre-911.
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The problem with introducing supernatural "explanations" is that the supernatural is not a scientific explanation, and in fact is the antithesis of a scientific explanation.
The Memory Hole 2005
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NRDC and dozens of Gulf Coast groups continue to raise concerns, request documents, and ask for explanations from the federal government, but most of the information is still not available, and the reopenings continue.
Gina Solomon: Six Months, Five Shrimp and One Nasty Mess: Health and Seafood Safety Concerns From BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today Gina Solomon 2010
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Once upon a time, "naturalistic" explanatations, as in explanations by reduction to some physical law, were seen as evidence of ID:
Another Look 2009
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NRDC and dozens of Gulf Coast groups continue to raise concerns, request documents, and ask for explanations from the federal government, but most of the information is still not available, and the reopenings continue.
Gina Solomon: Six Months, Five Shrimp and One Nasty Mess: Health and Seafood Safety Concerns From BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today Gina Solomon 2010
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They are far more interested in explanations that buttress their beliefs than in actual verifiable causes of problems.
Think Progress » Deficit Peacock Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Recognize His Own Feathers 2010
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And the explanations from the self-satisfied “experts” that of course their kind of sex-ed in school caused teens suddenly to become more careful about not getting pregnant.
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One of the newest explanations is "trust," which varies widely between societies and is strongly correlated with economic growth, says Paul Zak, an economist at Claremont Graduate University.
Neuroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And the explanations from the self-satisfied “experts” that of course their kind of sex-ed in school caused teens suddenly to become more careful about not getting pregnant.
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“One of the few possible explanations is that couples with younger husbands violate social norms and thus suffer from social sanctions,” says Sven Drefahl.
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