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Allowing Executive agencies to create the very crimes they are tasked with enforcing effectively turns them into the expositor, executor, and interpreter of criminal laws. . . .—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024 Stephen Jay Gould was a famous expositor of the inverse position, which emphasized chance and contingency.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2011 Though the grand old patron of the biometricians was Francis Galton, the greatest expositor of the school was Karl Pearson.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010 As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.—Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
Word History
Etymology
Middle English expositour, from Anglo-French expositur, from Late Latin expositor, from Latin exponere
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