elaborative
- a word derived from elaborate.
Example Sentences
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Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
He adds: "Testing itself when you get the correct answers appears to produce a more elaborative memory trace connected with your prior knowledge, so you're building on what you know".
From BBC • May 18, 2013
And when parents scaffold their children’s stories—when they essentially tell the stories for their children, as a highly elaborative parent of a very young child would—they are reinforcing those same connections.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2012
“Kids who grow up in homes where you talk about the past all the time, in these more elaborative ways, grow up with better memories.”
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2012
But hell itself would not be complete without the button-bore—the man or woman who holds you by a theory, and detains you amid life's intensity to attend the slow circlings of an elaborative brain.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
