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elaborate explanation



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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

Apparently Busch was making an elaborate explanation, now and then pointing with his finger seaward.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux


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