elaboration
noun
an act or instance of elaborating.
elaborations
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pluralof elaboration.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"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
Slow tempo melodic elaborations that had a strong emotive emphasis became the insignia of his performances.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
They are in many senses key to L.A.’s story of place but also the enduring elaborations the city continues to tell about itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2019
His elaborations are elegant, persuasive and come to a surprisingly feminist conclusion — that female desire shaped evolution.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
The directness of his questions and his subsequent elaborations threw her.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
