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

Lilly did not respond to a request for elaboration on the point.

From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025

He peeked out the door and disappeared without elaboration.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

"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

Slow tempo melodic elaborations that had a strong emotive emphasis became the insignia of his performances.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

Yet these elaborations — note the words “recycled” and “always-awake” — have less to do with the machinery of the station than they do with the orbiting minds of the humans on board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Philip K. Dick story stands as one of his finest elaborations on established genre conventions, in this case film noir put to the service of speculative science fiction.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2018

In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides