elaboration

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

“Time’s Second Arrow” is an elaboration and defense of that controversial article.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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

His only elaboration had been that they were “delightful people.”

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

"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

Examples, explanations, violated expectations, elaborations, sequences, causes, and effects are arcs of coherence that pinpoint how one statement follows from another.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker