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What does explanatory mean?

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Adjective
  1. Intended to serve as an explanation.
  2. (of a person) Disposed to explain.
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A student gets to prepare his own report card, adding explanatory paragraphs that put the best possible spin on his marks.
The other documents included in the bundle were not accompanied by any explanatory commentary, but there was an indexto them.
Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory, not tendentious or party political.
But if limits of the right sort persist, I see no reason that explanatory theories invoking the concept of agent causality should not be adopted.
At times the explanatory zeal of the commentators impels them into excess and absurdity.
All others are just commentaries, explanatory notes written by individuals.

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