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elaboration

[ih-lab-uh-ray-shuhn] / ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən /
NOUN
illustration
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Maybe what that means is that human creativity is changing, and that it’s much less dependent on idea generation, and much more dependent on idea selection and elaboration as the unique human skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The navy did not say how the 16 were encountered, and the Salvadoran military did not respond to requests for elaboration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Roberts wondered whether that phrasing itself suggested confusion, either by counsel or by the trial judge, about whether the objection was then being made or merely marked for later elaboration.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026

Fortunately, clear skies will bless BTS for the live event, although Netflix’s Mussman admits without elaboration, “There was a rain plan.”

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

Some of these carvings suggest that the objects may have originated with the recognition and elaboration of some chance resemblance.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Here repeated rhythms are overlayed by a large ensemble featuring all the festival performers in ecstatic elaborations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

"These results help us understand the evolutionary history of horns and antlers and could suggest that differences in other ruminant cranial appendages, like ossicones and pronghorns, are also elaborations on a shared ancestral cranial appendage."

From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024

"I was like, 'No-one's gonna sign up for this. There are just too many cameras pointed at me, there are too many ridiculous elaborations on my life'," she told the Grammy Museum.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

“Every movie is a dream,” the husband in “Vortex” muses, and his elaborations on the idea might serve as a running commentary on the movie he’s in.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022

The directness of his questions and his subsequent elaborations threw her.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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