elaborate
adjective
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness.
elaborated
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past participleof elaborate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof elaborate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
elaborateadjectiveworked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness.
Example Sentences
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On Friday, the Federal Reserve’s chair, Kevin Warsh, elaborated on his plan to curb inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
After admitting post-fight her age may have played a factor in her performance, Serrano further elaborated on social media.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Dr. Stuart Weiss, a Manhattan endocrinologist, elaborated in an email: “Bigger muscles are not necessarily stronger.”
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
He elaborated a little, calling lidar the wrong solution for self-driving cars, pointing out that humans drive with eyes and a brain, which is fundamentally Tesla’s approach to self-driving technology.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
This idea was elaborated by Ptolemy in the second century A.D. into a complete cosmological model.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
