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They constructed elaborate barricades with concrete, sandbags and razor wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov called the talks "extremely frank", saying the Americans "put forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement", but did not elaborate.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
It is a powerful distinction, though Mr. Rebeiro’s penchant for parsing interpretive categories occasionally makes a straightforward insight more juridically elaborate than it needs to be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said five people had been hurt in the SBU attack, but did not elaborate on whether they were inside the offices.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Cassiopeia means that she would like you to elaborate on the comment you made a moment ago, about there being some resemblance between me and the children.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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“It’s about our experience as being in the Armenian diaspora and exploring what that means to us,” McCreary elaborates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Of the new album, one of its highlights is the buoyant corrido “Terca,” which elaborates on a short story in the memoir about Venegas’ move to Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Dr Neil Scott, medical adviser to the British Boxing Board of Control and consultant head and neck surgeon elaborates.
From BBC ● May 8, 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
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
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On Friday, the Federal Reserve’s chair, Kevin Warsh, elaborated on his plan to curb inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
Canadian officials never elaborated on what that entailed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
“It’s worse than a lemon,” her twin elaborated.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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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
“Our focus remains on finding a sustainable manufacturing solution for Brampton,” the spokeswoman said, without elaborating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
"We determined that these changes require a renewal of the Cabinet of Ministers," he added, without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Ted Skopinski was the trajectories guy, elaborating on the math describing the path taken by a space vehicle as it left Earths surface and settled into orbit around it.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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