elaborate explanation
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And the less elaborate explanation you offer, the better.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
In an ordinary thriller, there might be a page or two outlining what this virus could do, but the Clinton touch feels present in the elaborate explanation.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2018
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
I have made a rather elaborate explanation of all this, because to some perhaps it will seem to be a strange and suspicious operation.
From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Pearson, Elizabeth Ware
