"retain and explain" meaning in English

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        "singular",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "retained and explained",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "retained and explained",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2010, J. I. Packer, Gary A. Parrett, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, page 31:",
          "text": "[W]e have opted in this book to use the word catechesis rather than substitute something in its place. Our strategy is to retain and explain, rather than to reject and replace.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Kevin Coffee, Museums and Social Responsibility:",
          "text": "The Roosevelt Memorial contest is parallel in time but also distinctly different from the 'retain and explain' position of the Conservative UK government regarding British colonialist monuments.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To preserve historical material regarded as problematic (such as statues), with appropriate contextual explanation, rather than destroying it or attempting to erase it from history."
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          "preserve"
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          "problematic",
          "problematic"
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        [
          "contextual",
          "contextual"
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        [
          "explanation",
          "explanation"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ],
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          "erase",
          "erase"
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      "qualifier": "policy",
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        "(policy) To preserve historical material regarded as problematic (such as statues), with appropriate contextual explanation, rather than destroying it or attempting to erase it from history."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "retain and explain"
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        "present"
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        "past"
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      "form": "retained and explained",
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          "ref": "2010, J. I. Packer, Gary A. Parrett, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, page 31:",
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        {
          "ref": "2022, Kevin Coffee, Museums and Social Responsibility:",
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      ],
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        "To preserve historical material regarded as problematic (such as statues), with appropriate contextual explanation, rather than destroying it or attempting to erase it from history."
      ],
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          "preserve",
          "preserve"
        ],
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          "historical",
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          "problematic"
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          "contextual",
          "contextual"
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          "explanation",
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          "erase",
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        "(policy) To preserve historical material regarded as problematic (such as statues), with appropriate contextual explanation, rather than destroying it or attempting to erase it from history."
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