elaboration
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The navy did not say how the 16 were encountered, and the Salvadoran military did not respond to requests for elaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
In the WSJ interview, Trump moved the deadline to Tuesday, and on Sunday afternoon, without elaboration, Trump posted “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Lilly did not respond to a request for elaboration on the point.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
There is reason to believe that recollection was an ex post facto elaboration; those on the scene recall a sensation more suggestive of relief and euphoria in the air.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
"I was like, 'No-one's gonna sign up for this. There are just too many cameras pointed at me, there are too many ridiculous elaborations on my life'," she told the Grammy Museum.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
But she was also carried by her feel for a wide range of rhythms, rhythms she knew how to follow through new elaborations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
Billy finally managed to get his news in edgewise during my continuing elaborations.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Vocabulary lists containing elaboration
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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