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Example sentences for: explanation

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The third explanation for the success of the Star Wars re-release is just that they marketed the hell out of it.
Here is an example from my own field, Jewish family names: the bibliography lists Benzion C. Kaganoff's A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History , but the few times this work is cited in A Dictionary of Surnames , a disclaimer follows immediately to the effect that no support could be found for Kaganoff's explanation (at the name Gordon for instance).
Many readers find it suspicious that Michael Lewis has stopped filing dispatches from the Microsoft antitrust trial, and they do not accept our explanation that he got bored, found the hard wooden seats nightmarishly uncomfortable (especially combined with the judge's power-mad restrictions on leaving to go to the bathroom), felt he had said most of what he wanted to say, has a pressing book deadline, and so on.
The alternative explanation (referred to as "x out of 100") was worded "If 100 women just like you were to take lifelong HRT, treatment would prevent 12 of them from developing heart disease and 11 of them from developing a hip fracture.
"No convincing explanation has as yet been found.