elaborate explanation
Example Sentences
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And the less elaborate explanation you offer, the better.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
I won’t go into an elaborate explanation here, but sympathy and solidarity are qualities that people do need.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022
The second promises the same thing, without his rival’s elaborate explanation.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2017
Anxious to contextualise this shocking revelation, I launched into an elaborate explanation, until I glanced in the mirror again.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016
She wrote no eloquent letter, entered into no elaborate explanation such as would have seemed to her, after the manner of her generation, theoretically indispensable to the situation.
From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.
