elaboration
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“No,” he said without hesitation or further elaboration.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
In her introduction, the translator Anne McKnight presents “Long Take” as an elaboration on “Something Like an Autobiography,” the filmmaker’s 1981 memoir.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 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
An interesting elaboration on the concept of conditional probability is known as Bayes’ theorem, first proved by Thomas Bayes in the eighteenth century.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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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