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elaboration

[ih-lab-uh-rey-shuhn] / ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən /
NOUN
illustration
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Thomas Crow’s “Murder in the Rue Marat” is a granular account of the making of a masterpiece and a personal elaboration on its afterlife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

“We want it back,” he said without further elaboration.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

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




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