Collocations withexplanation
These are words often used in combination withexplanation.
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acceptable explanation
For the difference between the two populations their genetic difference is not an acceptable explanation.
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accepted explanation
The husband, who had dementia, was deaf, which provided the accepted explanation for his lack of communication with other group members.
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adequate explanation
However, we do not regard the differences in input source to be an adequate explanation of the phenomenological distinction between waking and dreaming.
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alternate explanation
However, an alternate explanation for this bias could be a lateralization, or "handedness," in feeding behavior or use of the left eye in sunfish.
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alternative explanation
Here, then, an alternative explanation of the equitable man is required.
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brief explanation
Here we shall be content with writing down the model and some brief explanation.
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causal explanation
It seeks description as well as causal explanation, depth as well as breadth, the exploration of the distant past as well as of the present.
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clear explanation
There should be a clear explanation of what is meant by ' 'a better class of people' '.
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coherent explanation
Acknowledging the prior operation of group selection provides an evolutionarily coherent explanation of the survival of human behavioral predispositions that enable social cooperation.
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competing explanation
There was very little method overlap between family predictors and child outcomes, thus minimizing shared method variance as a competing explanation for the results.
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complete explanation
A complete explanation of animal behavior requires an evolutionary account.
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comprehensive explanation
This observation calls for a comprehensive explanation and invites a detailed consideration of linguistic and extralinguistic environments that might trigger the speakers' linguistic behavior.
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conventional explanation
Why not begin with conventional explanation?
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convincing explanation
We believe that there is another, and more convincing explanation.
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credible explanation
Although both of these explanations therefore have serious drawbacks, no other credible explanation has emerged.
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definitive explanation
Perhaps this moves us a bit further on, but we need a yet further assumption to get a definitive explanation for life-bearing universes.
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detailed explanation
A detailed explanation of the process of sampling would have added much to the broader understanding of this book.
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elaborate explanation
I should like a more elaborate explanation of this amendment.
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evolutionary explanation
Taken together, these two mechanisms give us a satisfying evolutionary explanation for why we age.
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innocent explanation
I must point out, however, that the accused has on oath given an innocent explanation in general of these actions in question.
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intuitive explanation
In section 5 we state a variety of basic equational laws along with an intuitive explanation of how these laws are established.
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lengthy explanation
I have a fairly lengthy explanation of this, but that is all it does.
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likely explanation
The most likely explanation is that he was already placing his papers in safekeeping and did not wish anyone to discover where they were.
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logical explanation
The most logical explanation for this is that extracting words from sentence-final position was easier for the infants than extracting the words from initial position.
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mechanistic explanation
We adopt it in order to interpret children's production because it provides a general mechanistic explanation for lexical and segmental phenomena.
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naturalistic explanation
Cures attributed to saints were capable of naturalistic explanation, but they were not rendered innocuous by this means.
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obvious explanation
The most obvious explanation for many of the observed examples is spelling pronunciation.
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official explanation
Decisions to change the historical record inevitably tease the historian's imagination-and in this case the official explanation seems a little suspect.
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only explanation
The only explanation given was that he had suffered a fall in his blood pressure.
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parsimonious explanation
The most parsimonious explanation would be that no functional synapses were formed in the outer plexiform layer to allow for synaptic transmission in these mice.
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partial explanation
One obvious but partial explanation has to do with versimilitude.
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physiological explanation
By employing the physiological explanation of the dream that dominated the era's research, the film was supporting its use of the dream in two ways.
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plausible explanation
Therefore, the psychiatric conditions were not regarded as a plausible explanation of the symptoms.
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possible explanation
One possible explanation for the differing results may have to do with the fact that we were requesting summary instead of individual patient data.
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potential explanation
This wording and the timing of the interview - nearly half a year after the last election - may be a potential explanation for this apparent contradiction.
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probable explanation
We believe the most probable explanation rests with intestinal permeability and a mucosal barrier.
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psychological explanation
It is not clear how dynamical systems serve as a psychological explanation as opposed to a complex description of behavior.
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rational explanation
There is a rational explanation for the phenomenon of the 'economic miracle'.
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reasonable explanation
It is therefore considered necessary to provide a reasonable explanation about why in such a field the longitudinal vortices constitute an object of study.
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satisfactory explanation
We believe a more satisfactory explanation of the limited capacity of visual working memory is provided by a between-item segregation hypothesis.
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scientific explanation
It is not coherent to value scientific explanation while not valuing scientific unity.
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simple explanation
A simple explanation is direct overdominance at the enzyme loci scored.
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sociological explanation
This alternative hypothesis does not make a sociological explanation a serious competitor for the explanation of theistic experiences.
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straightforward explanation
I will show that this proposal allows otherwise puzzling restrictions and variations in the realisation of the reduplicant to receive a straightforward explanation.
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structural explanation
Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox of quirk and creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible, structural explanation.
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sufficient explanation
But it was not a sufficient explanation to discredit him altogether.
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supernatural explanation
Such a runic script, appearing as a product without a discernible cause, would seem to call for a supernatural explanation.
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teleological explanation
I leave it to philosophers of science to evaluate the thesis that the data of modern science point toward the need for teleological explanation.
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theoretical explanation
A theoretical explanation of these unexpected findings seems in order.
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thorough explanation
Consistent with ethical requirements, written consent was obtained from each participant after providing a clear and thorough explanation of the study.
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verbal explanation
The stories cannot be replaced by verbal explanation.
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written explanation
Subjects were asked to remember the rule and refer to the written explanation, if necessary, as they completed the training session.
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