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Since joining Prada in 2023, Guerra, the chief executive, has added more expensive, elaborate products, unique pieces and services for its wealthiest customers while preserving cheaper ways into the brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Asked what had prompted the family's return to the UK, Harry said there were "lots of reasons" but did not elaborate further.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez created the film’s promotional website in 1998, filling it with fake police reports, evidence photographs and an elaborate mythology while carefully avoiding any suggestion that their story was fictional.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
But she likes to engage with visitors, who can either touch her elaborate garment, talk to her, take pictures of her or simply observe her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
An elaborate tale made its way into the press: Perugia had saved the life of a young woman named Mathilde—there was talk of a fight at a dance hall—and they’d fallen in love.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Scanning the room, largely full of teenagers, she elaborates on her last point.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Here he elaborates, line by lyrical line, on an eloquent poem about social justice by Nikky Finney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
In a recent essay at Scientific American, leading psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton elaborates:
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
She acknowledges but barely elaborates on them, they claim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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On Friday, the Federal Reserve’s chair, Kevin Warsh, elaborated on his plan to curb inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
After admitting post-fight her age may have played a factor in her performance, Serrano further elaborated on social media.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
He has elaborated on the philosophy in a handful of recent public appearances, and he is writing a book—due out in October—to defend it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Prominent figures in the late 1980s and early 1990s elaborated on that argument in books and talk-show appearances.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
In particular he elaborated the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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At Sunday’s deployment ceremony, Kim said North Korea was carrying out an important plan to strengthen its naval forces and vowed to prove this to the world in eight months, without elaborating on the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Our focus remains on finding a sustainable manufacturing solution for Brampton,” the spokeswoman said, without elaborating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It's a difficult situation," she said, adding that the US federal government was "helping us out", without elaborating.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"We determined that these changes require a renewal of the Cabinet of Ministers," he added, without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
I was elaborating upon my “legend” consistently and Luzan accepted my pathologies.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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