The phrase "advance an explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to propose or put forward a clarification or reasoning for something.
Example: "In our meeting, I would like to advance an explanation for the recent changes in our policy."
Alternatives: "offer an explanation" or "provide a rationale".
In this analysis, we pick up where Kerr (1975) left off and advance an explanation for why bad incentive systems are so prevalent in organizations.
And yet for me to advance an explanation given my limited time at the helm and in the face of so many conversations pertaining to matters 20 to 30 years old would be irresponsible.
However, since the Nf1 family serves as a feedback inhibitor for NSC self-renewal (Piper et al., 2010), these data advance an explanation for the observed loss of NSCs (Santillano et al., 2005; Tingling et al., 2013), following ethanol exposure.
In a controversial book, Banfield (1958) advanced an explanation of the 'backwardness' of the South based on the behavioural notion of 'amoral familism' – the prioritisation of the self and one's family over all else, so that society functions 'amorally'amorally
Computational complexity advances an explanation to this apparent paradox: (1) only a small portion of instances of such problems are actually hard, and (2) successful heuristics exploit structural properties of the typical instance to selectively improve parts that are likely to be sub-optimal.
They advanced an explanation that skills involved with extracurricular activities at the time of admission might generically be translatable to high academic achievement later in medical school.
It has even been advanced as an explanation for the extreme levels of self- sacrificial altruism people sometimes display.
The "logic of the situation"—showing that, under the circumstances, what was done was the right or reasonable thing to do—is commonly advanced as an explanation by historians, and it can undoubtedly be convincing if one is not too fussy about what constitutes an explanation.
Waterspouts and tornadoes have been advanced as an explanation for instances of raining fish and other animals.
Residual confounding might be advanced as an explanation for the observed association between pay-for-performance achievement and diabetic retinopathy.
The strongly inverse relationship between effect size and MAF we observed is in accord with recent model predictions advanced as an explanation for why the plethora of GWA studies has rarely detected major effect variants underlying common human diseases [36].
