elaborate
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We are the only animal whose survival depends not just on instinct but on an elaborate, invisible infrastructure of trust.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The production by the film director Alberto Arvelo was not elaborate drama.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Take, for example, elaborate platters of vegetable crudité, complete with cottage cheese, yellow mustard and a sausage or two.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
This nod to elaborate disguises, favoured by attendees at science fiction conventions, hints at Smith's core audience.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
That the whole thing—the grandmother, his heritage, the bar mitzvah—was just the latest and most elaborate of the series of unfunny pranks that he and his idiot friends are famous for.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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