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elaborate

[ih-lab-er-it, ih-lab-uh-reyt] / ɪˈlæb ər ɪt, ɪˈlæb əˌreɪt /




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"Microglia are immune cells that, when they respond to plaques, kick off this elaborate cascade of inflammation, as if the microglia are partying all night, and keeping the brain awake."

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Lego says the Smart Play system is more technologically elaborate and broader in scale.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Influencer Nara Smith, known for her elaborate deconstructed cooking videos, revealed one of the four children she shares with model Lucky Blue Smith is battling cancer.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

He added Griffiths went into "elaborate detail" in the stories he made up and "the emotional impact... is hard to overstate".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

“So, are you saying we aren’t going to concoct an elaborate revenge plot to get back at her?”

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Of the new album, one of its highlights is the buoyant corrido “Terca,” which elaborates on a short story in the memoir about Venegas’ move to Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

Scanning the room, largely full of teenagers, she elaborates on her last point.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

Here he elaborates, line by lyrical line, on an eloquent poem about social justice by Nikky Finney.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2025

"In our devices, electrons propagate in two opposite directions within the same nanoscale space and without scattering," Dr Barrier elaborates.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Prominent figures in the late 1980s and early 1990s elaborated on that argument in books and talk-show appearances.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2026

He elaborated a little, calling lidar the wrong solution for self-driving cars, pointing out that humans drive with eyes and a brain, which is fundamentally Tesla’s approach to self-driving technology.

From Barron's May 4, 2026

Bob Elliott, CEO of Unlimited Funds, elaborated on this point in a post on X.

From MarketWatch Mar. 23, 2026

Canadian officials never elaborated on what that entailed.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

He elaborated without encouragement, citing the advantages of Devon’s physical hardening program and of a high school diploma when he did in good time reach basic training.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The Texas senator similarly held a private meeting with Blanche, a conversation he described simply as “positive,” without elaborating which direction he’s leaning on Blanche’s confirmation.

From Slate Jul. 9, 2026

There are a “complicated set of tradeoffs” tied to going public, it said, without elaborating further.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

“We have assessed the business and are taking additional actions to reposition where needed and further strengthen our product engine,” she said, without elaborating.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

Putin ordered his defence ministry to prepare a response, without elaborating.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

I was elaborating upon my “legend” consistently and Luzan accepted my pathologies.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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