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Some Saudis were among those hurt, though officials wouldn’t elaborate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The findings reveal that even the Sun's seemingly quiet regions contain elaborate magnetic structures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
What you know already is what you know — I’ll elaborate on that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Prepare a humble yet decadent meal: If you’re feeling burned out, cooking an elaborate dinner can be too much work—and going out to eat might be too pricey.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
Now that she had more time on her hands, she enjoyed making elaborate foreign dishes.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
Instead, it thoughtfully elaborates on the stage show, which opened on Broadway in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Whereas brat was about being loud and messy, demure is about being classy, considerate and, as Lebron elaborates, authentic.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 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
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On X, Mr. Coxon elaborated: He had worked for both OpenAI and Anthropic, and said “neither company is acting responsibly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Prominent figures in the late 1980s and early 1990s elaborated on that argument in books and talk-show appearances.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
It was more unrestrained than other models and often elaborated on the delusions without trying to protect the user.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Netanyahu elaborated on Israel's security concerns in his post.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
Robbie elaborated upon his circumstances, then ended by asking politely about the parents of the other fellow.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Xi said they had common understanding on issues without elaborating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
At Sunday’s deployment ceremony, Kim said North Korea was carrying out an important plan to strengthen its naval forces and vowed to prove this to the world in eight months, without elaborating on the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Macron said it was a "very important moment" for relations between the two countries, adding that they would also discuss "new initiatives" in the Middle East, without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
"It's a difficult situation," she said, adding that the US federal government was "helping us out", without elaborating.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
I was elaborating upon my “legend” consistently and Luzan accepted my pathologies.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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