Explain and Spotlight

Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Spotlight and explain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spotlight" instead a verb "Explain".

Spotlight verb - Illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.

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Explain and spotlight are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Spotlight".

Nearby Words: spotlit, spotlighted, spotlighting

truth	explain truth	spotlight truth
fact	explain fact	spotlight fact
characters	explain characters	spotlight characters
many	explain many	spotlight many
Other words: concepts, aspects.

That might explain why he is an avid Daikari shipper and gives Izzy more spotlight than the rest of the first generation Digidestined.

Source: Fan Fic / Zero 2 A Revision
It would explain however why the Aesop was repeated in Twilight's next spotlight episode, which she definitely gets the jist of that time.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S2 E3 "Lesson Zero"
To explain, the entirety of the dialogue is spoken by three heads sticking out of large, unmoving funeral urns which can only speak if the spotlight is on them.

Source: World Limited to the Plot

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