elaboration
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The swashbuckling 17-minute short is a pitch-perfect elaboration on newspaper cartoonist E.C.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 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
“No,” he said without hesitation or further elaboration.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
Lilly did not respond to a request for elaboration on the point.
From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025
Beulah served us without elaboration, bringing and taking plates.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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