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Definitions for explain away
ex·plain away
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explain awayverb
To dismiss or minimize by explanation, especially with regard to problems.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of explain away in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of explain away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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They have spent a lot of their time trying to undo or explain away some of the images and the mood that came out of the last trip to Europe.
The Obama administration has tended to downplay, to belittle, the ideological importance of the problem, you can't explain away the terrorism problem as a matter of economic and political frustration.
I saw that people love to explain away a woman's success in the music industry, and I saw something in me change due to this realization, this was the decade when I became a mirror for my detractors. Whatever they decided I couldn't do is exactly what I did.
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