elaboration
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This marks a further elaboration from the Canadian leader on why negotiations suddenly broke down after officials just days earlier were optimistic that a deal was imminent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
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
Fortunately, clear skies will bless BTS for the live event, although Netflix’s Mussman admits without elaboration, “There was a rain plan.”
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
The place was put together, given life, sustained into today’s version of its maturity and prepared for further elaboration and changes in its complexity, by what can only be described as a bunch of people.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
"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
While trained within the confines of Rampur style - which focused on intricate rhythmic play, fast elaborations and a full-throated throw of voice - Rashid, like most greats, transcended its boundaries.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
But she was also carried by her feel for a wide range of rhythms, rhythms she knew how to follow through new elaborations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
The directness of his questions and his subsequent elaborations threw her.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing elaboration
Common Core Grades 7–8, List 3
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Common Core Grade 6, List 3
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 3
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