elaboration
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Fortunately, clear skies will bless BTS for the live event, although Netflix’s Mussman admits without elaboration, “There was a rain plan.”
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
“No,” he said without hesitation or further elaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Thomas Crow’s “Murder in the Rue Marat” is a granular account of the making of a masterpiece and a personal elaboration on its afterlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Lilly did not respond to a request for elaboration on the point.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Beulah served us without elaboration, bringing and taking plates.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Here repeated rhythms are overlayed by a large ensemble featuring all the festival performers in ecstatic elaborations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
"These results help us understand the evolutionary history of horns and antlers and could suggest that differences in other ruminant cranial appendages, like ossicones and pronghorns, are also elaborations on a shared ancestral cranial appendage."
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
Slow tempo melodic elaborations that had a strong emotive emphasis became the insignia of his performances.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
“Every movie is a dream,” the husband in “Vortex” muses, and his elaborations on the idea might serve as a running commentary on the movie he’s in.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 3
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Common Core Grade 6, List 3
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 3
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