- present tense form of elaborate (3rd person singular).
elaborates
Example Sentences
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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
Whereas brat was about being loud and messy, demure is about being classy, considerate and, as Lebron elaborates, authentic.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024
She acknowledges but barely elaborates on them, they claim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
