Check
Explain
Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Which would explain why they're stopping to check out every oven in all the towns...
Source: Delicious Distraction -
If you check her equipment before the fight, you can see that she is wearing a Hypnocrown to explain why she is acting against her will.
Source: Hypno Trinket - In the end, it all goes away because Top Cat, who didn't give Benny a chance to explain about the million dollars, tore up the check.
Source: Easy Come, Easy Go
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