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adjective

Definition of clarifyingnext
as in illuminating

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verb

present participle of clarify
1
as in filtering
to remove usually visible impurities from clarify the melted butter by skimming off the milky bits

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2
as in explaining
to make plain or understandable it would help if you could clarify your position for us

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Recent Examples of clarifying
Adjective
Some of the most clarifying conversations about where work is headed come from people who are just entering it. — Lindsey Garito, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026 As the Virgo Moon arrives November 13 to 15, things get even more introspective, but in the best, most clarifying way. — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 9 Nov. 2025 And that was a clarifying moment for me in my understanding of their relationship. — Max Gao, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025 These compositions have surprising emotional impact and a clarifying depth. — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
Verb
Organizations achieving meaningful value are redesigning workflows, establishing governance frameworks, investing in workforce readiness and clarifying accountability alongside technology deployment. — Jayasri Ranganathan, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 As a policy tool, that commitment provides clarifying focus and a way to determine when to stop an operation. — Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026 The top houses the filter basket cover, a water outlet, a compartment that holds the clarifying agent, and the onboard control panel. — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026 Confronted with this, Roth issued a statement to Polygon clarifying his original remarks in the interview. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2026 Check the route, reread the message, or ask the clarifying question. — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2026 Frost sends the poem to Thomas, with no clarifying text, in March or April of 1915. — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026 Last month, the SEC and CFTC issued a joint request for public comment regarding updating, clarifying and harmonizing certain definitions and issues. — Ananya Chetia,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 16 July 2026 Concerns over squatting have prompted several states in recent years to pass laws aimed at speeding the removal of unauthorized occupants and clarifying the distinction between criminal trespass and civil landlord-tenant disputes. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clarifying
  1. illuminating
  2. filtering
  3. explaining
  4. explanatory
  5. refining
  6. illustrating
  7. revealing
  8. extracting
Adjective
  • Waiting four days may have been fatal to the recovery of some video that could have been more illuminating.
    — Michael Ruiz , Kelley Kramer, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
  • The most recent fundraising report was the most illuminating on the campaigns’ spending, given the proximity to the mid-August primary.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
Definition of illuminating
Verb
  • According to You, the new approach could save significant computing resources by filtering out less promising materials before expensive simulations or even lab experiments start.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The liver just might be one of your hardest-working organs, producing proteins and filtering the blood, metabolizing nutrients and creating necessary bile for digestion.
    — Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of filtering
Verb
  • Their background needs explaining, and there is less internal precedent for what success looks like.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Creighton jokes, explaining that making the film accessible to people is far more interesting to her than some sort of contrived celebrity impact campaign.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of explaining
Adjective
  • The mods think Reddit might have designated the website—and thus any post using its content for explanatory illustrations—as spam.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The guild’s campaign includes a one-sheet explaining its support for the bill, as well as an entire section on its website dedicated to explanatory information.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 July 2026
Definition of explanatory
Verb
  • After refining their word-swapping dictionary over three months, the ShieldFont creators ended up with a list of nearly 12,000 common words that can be replaced with ligatures.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Bad prompts stay bad prompts because asking for help refining them exposes the dependency.
    — Nohar Zmora, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of refining
Verb
  • Vulture podcast critic Nicholas Quah rounds up the year’s best and most interesting podcasts, with an eye toward illustrating broader shifts in the new-media landscape.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Spanos prioritize employee legacy and community over a sale, illustrating why such valuable independent firms are often the hardest to acquire.
    — Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of illustrating
Adjective
  • Someone close to you could be unpredictable with their actions, but their unfiltered honesty might be more revealing than the disruption itself, Sagittarius.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
  • By Their Own Admission, The Infrastructure Won't Last The most revealing verdict on the state of device management comes from those who run it.
    — Thomas Ryd, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of revealing
Verb
  • These platforms function less like traditional capitalist firms than feudal estates, extracting rent from businesses, creators, and users who have little choice but to operate on their terrain.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The humidor carries more than 10,000 cigars, and King makes every cocktail in-house — down to growing his own herbs and extracting his own vanilla bean.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of extracting

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