- present tense form of elaborate (3rd person singular).
elaborates
Example Sentences
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Scanning the room, largely full of teenagers, she elaborates on her last point.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Here he elaborates, line by lyrical line, on an eloquent poem about social justice by Nikky Finney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
In a recent essay at Scientific American, leading psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton elaborates:
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
Instead, it thoughtfully elaborates on the stage show, which opened on Broadway in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
A note elaborates that Tío Alejandro was the one who used to own English saddle horses and taught you four girls to ride.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
