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Thank you for providing enough details to flesh out some real sense of your options.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Blais, 72, has avoided door-to-door campaigning this year due to aggressive dogs -- in contrast to Libertarian Party candidate Taner Lopez, 46, who has been pressing the flesh at every opportunity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
On Thursday, Carney will address the European Parliament to flesh out his vision to link up with Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Utopia exists between the care and the kisses and the how you doin’s, it becomes flesh and bone in the embrace of full body hugs and smiles so wide they could devour the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
My hands recoiled from the coldness of serpent flesh, my nails clawed at my palms, the leaves I had parted moved back to cover it.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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That earlier book floated an eye-catching thesis that Mr. Mandelbaum now fleshes out fully: that U.S. foreign policy is, indeed, distinctive, being “unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The board fleshes out detailed regulations based on laws enacted by the Legislature, with input from the public and state scientists.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Ariana Burks as Oedipus’ less decisive daughter Ismene fleshes out this sorrowful family tale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Treasury Department fleshes out the minute details in President Biden’s signature climate bill.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The exhibition’s 11 sections unfold not chronologically, but more in the manner of evolution on earth, moving from simple and crystalline to complex and fleshed out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The rebuild was fleshed out with midfielder Joao Gomes arriving from Wolverhampton Wanderers and winger Alejandro Garnacho on loan from Chelsea.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
By the 2000s, some franchises offered games that fleshed out or complemented the worlds depicted on the silver screen.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Professors Carlos Manuel Vázquez and Steve Vladeck fleshed out the theory in an important 2013 article that has only grown more relevant since.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
His plan wasn’t fully fleshed out on what he’d do when he got to London, but he was sure he’d find a flight going to Peshawar from there.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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And then Jamie and I have been fleshing it out with Matt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The luxurious hotel complex was proposed by Washington and Tehran, and their Pakistani and Qatari mediators, for the negotiations aimed at fleshing out their preliminary agreement on ending nearly four months of war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
We’re all for peace-making, but this idea could use some fleshing out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
With “Queer,” Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes take an abstract approach to fleshing out the intricacies of Burroughs’ work.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2024
Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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