flesh

A machine may be allocated a wide range of quotidian writing tasks, but let flesh and blood hold fast the art of writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

With a rock and a spike, she punched a hole and drank the juice, cracked the shell and pried out the flesh.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

Christine Cover Ferro‘s costumes situate the jockeying courtiers in a vintage 20th century underworld. Projection designer Nick Santiago fleshes out Angela Balogh Calin‘s stripped down scenic design, which combines Elizabethan simplicity with modern rough edges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

She has a terrific speech about dating him, which fleshes out her character, while the other women are denied such an opportunity, which is a drawback.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 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

Redmond has since fleshed out the Los Angeles version of the show, going deeper into stories and punching up the jokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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

"Security guarantees are going to have to be fleshed out," says Ambassador Fried.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

Her figure faults were gone, the too bony elbow having fleshed out nicely; the opposite pudgy wrist could not have been trimmer.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

Adding relatives like Kermitops into the fold is essential for fleshing out the early branches of the amphibian family tree.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 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