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They serve as a stand-in for Porter himself, who, though absent in the flesh, nevertheless is the central personage around which these myriad dynamics revolve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Eventually, they used stray dogs, hoping they could detect the scent of flesh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

Perhaps he’ll flesh out his views a bit more, but don’t count on a major reveal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Where the sores were, there is now pink puckered flesh; his limbs are untouched.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

In “Dragon Mama,” the second part of her Dragon Cycle, writer-performer Sara Porkalob fleshes out the story of her Filipina American family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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

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

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

Debates around the neutral official cash rate and estimates of full employment would be fleshed out, said Huw McKay, visiting fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Akhnaten is revealed in episodes of his life that are not fleshed out but presented as ritual, including the ravishing love duet with his wife, Nefertiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Part of this command superstructure that had accumulated over an entire career was not completely fleshed out but still had impact on the colonel’s persona as a commander.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Now, HBO’s “The Penguin,” fleshing out the origin story of the waddling, tuxedo-clad “gentleman mobster” after more than 80 years as one of the Caped Crusader’s best-known adversaries, has earned a staggering 24 Emmy nominations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

If Hancock spent more time fleshing out his characters, perhaps the rapidly paced events of the movie’s first act wouldn’t cause such whiplash.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025

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