satisfactory explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsatisfactoryandexplanation
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satisfactory
adjective
uk/ˌsæt.ɪsˈfæk.tər.i/us/ˌsæt̬.ɪsˈfæk.tɚ.i/
good or good enough for a particular need ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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We believe a moresatisfactoryexplanationof the limited capacity of visual working memory is provided by a between-item segregation hypothesis.
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He could not find an entirelysatisfactoryexplanationfor the development of these motions.
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The structural argument thus fails to give asatisfactoryexplanationof the necessary conditions for realising such economic potential.
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No totallysatisfactoryexplanationappears to have been proffered for this situation.
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We have nosatisfactoryexplanationfor this unexpected observation.
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This model is attractive because it provides a cogent basis for thesatisfactoryexplanationof all the clinical phenotypes described.
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Unfortunately, the authors have been unsuccessful so far in finding asatisfactoryexplanationfor this surprisingly simple correlation within the framework of the present theory.
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Yet we do not consider this asatisfactoryexplanation.
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It is a challenge to give asatisfactoryexplanationfor the general occurrence of the overshooting phenomena during normal neural development.
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We contend that a moresatisfactoryexplanationof fisheries development must examine the influence of government policies in each country.
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But such political instrumentalism cannot provide asatisfactoryexplanationfor the adoption of scientific-bureaucratic medicine; it still leaves the question as to why.
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Not only is the proposed analysis more general and straightforward than the derivational alternatives, it also yields a moresatisfactoryexplanationfor the observed patterns.
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Neither art history nor philosophy has supplied us with asatisfactoryexplanationof the concept of style.
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They also suggest that the three processing-related accounts of asymmetrical cross-language priming discussed earlier cannot provide asatisfactoryexplanationfor the asymmetry.
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Asatisfactoryexplanationof the findings requires more attention to the specific characteristics of the linguistic system the children are learning.
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And the onlysatisfactoryexplanationis that (2) in itself is impossible.
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It is not easy to find asatisfactoryexplanationfor this difference.
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Nosatisfactoryexplanationfor this deviation from the normal number of instars could be reached.
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The results showed that none of the three processing accounts provides asatisfactoryexplanationfor the asymmetry.
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It is enough to remark at this point that a reallysatisfactoryexplanationof the governmental revolution must take these unobserved departmental developments into account.
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