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
Our acceptance is that Dr. Bedding's elaborate explanation does not apply to cut-stone objects found in tree trunks in other lands: we accept that for the general, a local explanation is inadequate.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
