elaboration
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The swashbuckling 17-minute short is a pitch-perfect elaboration on newspaper cartoonist E.C.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Roberts wondered whether that phrasing itself suggested confusion, either by counsel or by the trial judge, about whether the objection was then being made or merely marked for later elaboration.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
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
The reader of Unweaving the Rainbow opens the book and is walloped with a reminder of the most dreadful fact we know, and on its heels a paradoxical elaboration.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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