flesh out
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They spray confetti into the audience to punctuate their biggest songs, and add an honorary fifth member, Ryan Malcolm, to flesh out their sound with swells of keyboard and additional rhythm guitar.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Wizened and creased, with a hoop the size of a quarter dangling in his left ear, he relies on gestures—shrugs, grimaces, guffaws—to flesh out responses that lean terse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Price increases for all the stuff needed to flesh out AI technology are unlikely to deflate anytime soon.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Trump says he will flesh out his housing affordability plan this coming week in a speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which strikes some as a curious choice of venue.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Guarded by Spot, a surly Dalmatian who took hunks of flesh out of reporters who got too close, he stormed around the barn and fretted, pouted and balked in his workouts.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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