elaborate
adjective
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness.
is elaborating
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present progressiveof elaborate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The Editor begs most pointedly to meet in limine the suspicion, that he is elaborating a trick, or vouching for another ghost of Mrs. Veal.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
He is elaborating now the idea of a world planned out like an immense and nice hospital, with gardens and flowers, in which the strong are to devote themselves to the nursing of the weak.”
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
In inspiration, in prophecy, in those flashes of the sacred fire which reveal the secret places where Time is elaborating the marvels of Nature, he stands alone.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
