expatiate
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It’s all there in the Reuters reporting, and there is no need to expatiate on the obvious immorality of the operation, quite apart from its colossal stupidity.
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024
Do not be afraid to expatiate on all the ways you are a bigger person — there are probably lots!
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2020
We took long walks in the botanical garden in the Bronx, where he could expatiate on every species of fern.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2017
Did Mr. Isherwood also see these plays and respond similarly? — drjp1025, Los Angeles Ben Brantley: I said pretty much what I wanted to say in those reviews, though you can always expatiate, I suppose.
From New York Times • May 2, 2013
It was suddenly cool to know stuff, to expatiate on the causes of the Spanish Civil War.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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