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It’s not a love expressed through expensive ingredients or elaborate techniques just for the sake of it.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The work also helps address a major gap in understanding how elaborate reproductive traits have emerged and changed over hundreds of millions of years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
That could include an elaborate Lego contraption, robotics or a self-programmed way to turn off the lights and close the curtains, Magill added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
He didn’t elaborate further, and my own attempt to interview Johnson over this epiphany fell through.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
The crib itself was an elaborate wicker swinging cradle that squeaked when it rocked.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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When questioned on this by her guest, Queer Eye's Tan France, she elaborates on what she likes to cook.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Here he elaborates, line by lyrical line, on an eloquent poem about social justice by Nikky Finney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Instead, it thoughtfully elaborates on the stage show, which opened on Broadway in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Whereas brat was about being loud and messy, demure is about being classy, considerate and, as Lebron elaborates, authentic.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024
A note elaborates that Tío Alejandro was the one who used to own English saddle horses and taught you four girls to ride.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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In his few public appearances since taking office, Warsh has said the committee is committed to delivering price stability, but has not elaborated on how it would do so or when it may intervene.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Dr. Stuart Weiss, a Manhattan endocrinologist, elaborated in an email: “Bigger muscles are not necessarily stronger.”
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
He has elaborated on the philosophy in a handful of recent public appearances, and he is writing a book—due out in October—to defend it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Hamilton also elaborated on a remark he had made after his win in Barcelona about having incurred an injury at the track last year.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
He elaborated without encouragement, citing the advantages of Devon’s physical hardening program and of a high school diploma when he did in good time reach basic training.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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The Texas senator similarly held a private meeting with Blanche, a conversation he described simply as “positive,” without elaborating which direction he’s leaning on Blanche’s confirmation.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Thursday in a written statement that he had approved the deal despite having a "different view", without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
There are a “complicated set of tradeoffs” tied to going public, it said, without elaborating further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
“We have assessed the business and are taking additional actions to reposition where needed and further strengthen our product engine,” she said, without elaborating.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
And when April and Melanie started tossing the idea back and forth, decorating and elaborating the way they always did, it Worked just the way it was supposed to.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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