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The Senedd declined to elaborate on the statement to MSs after being asked why the presiding officer's stance had changed.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Almost immediately after they’d lost in court, the Greens had hatched an elaborate escape plan together.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
If the Dinaledi Chamber was intentionally used only for females, it could point to surprisingly elaborate social customs among these ancient human relatives.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
In the kitchen, chefs prepare an elaborate four-course meal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Filled with gears and pulleys and wires and an elaborate computer system.”
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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Scanning the room, largely full of teenagers, she elaborates on her last point.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and brown suede cowboy boots, Batson elaborates on his idea about genre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
“Face to Face” elaborates on this possible evidence as well as leads Peterson and his supporters claim paint a different picture from that which the prosecution used to secure Peterson’s conviction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
"In our devices, electrons propagate in two opposite directions within the same nanoscale space and without scattering," Dr Barrier elaborates.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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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Mr. Varadarajan elaborated that Ms. Tisch “has been a prominent administrator in the city since February 2014, when she became the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for information technology.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
On Friday, the Federal Reserve’s chair, Kevin Warsh, elaborated on his plan to curb inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Davis also elaborated on the shooting to the media, detailing information to reporters in interviews.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Prominent figures in the late 1980s and early 1990s elaborated on that argument in books and talk-show appearances.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
Hess elaborated his ideas in an important paper, which was almost universally ignored.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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"America.gov will continue to be updated to provide Americans the most accurate and reliable federal information and resources," a White House official said in a statement to AFP, without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Xi said they had common understanding on issues without elaborating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
At Sunday’s deployment ceremony, Kim said North Korea was carrying out an important plan to strengthen its naval forces and vowed to prove this to the world in eight months, without elaborating on the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
"It's a difficult situation," she said, adding that the US federal government was "helping us out", without elaborating.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Without elaborating on Tess, she went on, “Ain’t neither one of y’all ’bout to walk in my kitchen with all that outside on your hands.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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