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elaboration

[ih-lab-uh-rey-shuhn] / ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən /
NOUN
illustration
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Lilly did not respond to a request for elaboration on the point.

From Barron's

It does not seek the new, but demands endless repetition of the same themes, merely with greater elaboration, gaudier technical effects and greater expense.

From Salon

Here repeated rhythms are overlayed by a large ensemble featuring all the festival performers in ecstatic elaborations.

From Los Angeles Times

Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.

From Salon

He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.

From Los Angeles Times