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The phrase "neat explanation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a clear and concise explanation or description. Example: The teacher gave us a neat explanation of the complicated math problem, making it much easier to understand.
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Yet inventories aren't a completely neat explanation.
I had a neat explanation for his symptoms, and everything seemed to fit together.
But in itself it feels schematic: a neat explanation that never plausibly accounts for Skinner's very plausible turmoil.
"And we never came up with a neat explanation for why so many women had such deep reservations".
Many turn up at local hospitals searching for a neat explanation for pain the likes of which they have never felt before.
The Greeks thus had a neat explanation for two perplexing phenomena, the gigantic bones and the earthquakes that frequently devastated their land.
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The accumulation of plot reversals, absurd coincidences, and neat explanations — they so galled George Bernard Shaw that he wrote "Cymbeline Refinished" (1937) — work, in fact, to make a larger, more benevolent, and more paradoxical point about the human heart.
It could have been the beginning of a letter addressed to a lawyer (one of the American uses of the word counsellor, along with therapist or adviser), he may have been describing himself, or he might simply have wished to confound those looking for neat explanations for his suicide - an echo of Rosebud, the central character's last word in the film Citizen Kane.
What happened next is a textbook case of the way in which research happens, showing us why we should always be wary of neat explanations for complex phenomena.
Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott said: "The filmmakers' only misstep is to supply, early and late, a too-neat explanation for the slow-motion train wreck that Ben's life has become.
Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott said: "The filmmakers' only misstep is to supply, early and late, a too-neat explanation for the slow-motion train wreck that Ben's life has become.
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