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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
plain .
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Examples
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This press, as I have already ex - plained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the subject.
Sole Music 2010
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This was, she had ex - plained, merely an extension of her natural ability to harden her substance into bonelike or hornlike rigidity.
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"I'm just establishing what year it took place," he ex - plained.
Stalling 2010
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"I commune with my self-sister Nepe in Proton," he ex - plained.
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"They did get together, and soon married," Agape ex - plained.
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"All the doors and knobs are at the right height," ex - plained the kender, stopping to trace a finger over a par - ticularly intricate carving of a rose on the banister.
Stalling 2010
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Rabbi Joshua Metzger "You have all these skyscrapers around," the rabbi ex plained, as he surveyed the huge buildings bordering the park.
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"The grove's effect isn't physical," Trapspringer ex - plained.
Stalling 2010
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They ex - plained all that they knew of the situation to Clef.
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Obama lost the debate, hands down, he plained sucked.
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