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But opportunities to enlarge upon the tragedy, to infuse the musical with some flashes of real personality, are largely missed.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Tim would enlarge upon these ideas in “Infidel,” his book about Afghanistan.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2011

The novel rehearses many of the ideas of existentialism that Sartre would later enlarge upon in his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2011

But clever old Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, gave his adversary no opportunity to enlarge upon this doubt by putting any of the other eye-witness defendants on the stand.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I need not enlarge upon this topic to such attentive navigators.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von




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