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Explanation takes a word, phrase or clause you highlight and tells you what it means in the sentence it is sitting in.
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Explain: “The parties agree to indemnify and hold harmless…”
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Each side promises to cover the other's losses if their own actions cause a claim. So if you get sued because of something they did, they pay, not you.
It is built for what a dictionary answers badly: a clause whose plain English misleads, an acronym with six expansions, an idiom that dissolves word by word.
Why a dictionary is the wrong instrument here
A dictionary defines a word on its own. The things people actually get stuck on are defined by the sentence around them.
- Acronyms are ambiguous. PR is a pull request to an engineer, a press release to a marketer, a personal record at the gym. SLA, ARR, CTA, EOD and OKR each have several expansions, and only the sentence picks one.
- Legal phrases are terms of art. “Hold harmless” is not about harm. “Without prejudice” is not about bias. “Consideration” is the thing each side gives up to make the contract binding. “Time is of the essence” turns a late delivery into a breach.
- Idioms do not decompose. “Table a motion” means to bring it forward in British usage and to shelve it in American usage: three identical words, opposite outcomes. “Ballpark figure” and “moving the goalposts” collapse word by word too.
- Jargon overloads ordinary words. “Material”, “vest”, “security”, “instrument” and “consideration” each mean one thing in finance or law and something else at home.
Explanation receives the sentence along with the phrase, so it picks the sense that applies instead of listing all six.
What a good explanation contains
Three parts, in this order: what the phrase means here, what it means for you in concrete terms, and the gap between the words and their effect.
The indemnity example above is that shape. First it defines the term, meaning that each side covers the other's losses. Then it gives the consequence: if you are sued for something they did, they pay. The second half is what changes what you do next, and it is what a dictionary never has.
It is also why highlighting a clause works better than highlighting a word: the clause carries the obligation, the word only carries a definition.
The case it was really built for: reading in a second language
You can know every word in a sentence and still miss what it is doing, because much of professional English is deliberately indirect. None of these is an idiom a dictionary lists:
- “We would need to circle back on that” is usually a no.
- “Interesting” in feedback is often a polite no.
- “As per my last email” is annoyance, formalised.
- “Let us take this offline” means stop discussing it in this channel.
- “With all due respect” precedes the opposite of respect.
- “I have a few small comments” can mean anything up to a rewrite.
Explanation names the intent, which is what you actually needed, in any of the 90+ supported languages: a French clause explained to you in Ukrainian, a Japanese email in German.
It explains. It does not advise.
Explanation tells you what a clause says and what it does. It does not know the rest of the contract, the law of your jurisdiction, or the negotiation you are in. The same boundary holds for a medical letter or a financial statement: you get the sentence in plain language, and the decision stays with somebody accountable for it.
Used that way it is valuable: you walk into the conversation understanding the document instead of nodding at it. Used as a substitute for the conversation, it is a way of being confidently wrong in a new language.
Updated August 2026
Step by step
How to explain a word, phrase or clause
Both platforms do the same thing in the same order.
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Highlight what you do not recognise
Select the phrase, the clause or the acronym on the page you are reading, or paste the passage to the Telegram chatbot.
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Choose Explanation
Pick it from the toolbar or the bot's keyboard, selecting the whole clause rather than the single word: the clause carries the obligation, and the context decides which of an acronym's meanings applies.
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Read the answer where you are
The explanation arrives in place, so you keep the document and your position in it, in whichever supported language you ask for it.
Can I use it on a contract?
Yes, clause by clause, which is one of the two things it was built for. It will tell you what an indemnity, a notice period or an auto-renewal clause does in plain language, and it is not legal advice: it does not know your jurisdiction, the rest of the agreement, or what you have already negotiated.
What language does the answer come back in?
The language you are reading in, so an explanation of a German clause comes back in German. All 90+ supported languages work in both roles, which means you can ask about a text in one language and read the answer in another when you say so.
How much text should I select?
A phrase or a clause, not a page. The more you highlight, the more general the answer has to be, and the limits are 15,000 characters per request in the extension and 4,096 per Telegram message in any case.
Does it handle acronyms with several meanings?
Yes, and that is precisely the case where a dictionary fails. Because it receives the sentence around the acronym, it returns the expansion that fits the document, the pull request rather than the press release, and not a list you still have to choose from.
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