elaborate
adjective
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness.
was elaborating
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past progressiveof elaborate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“Miller was elaborating on the president’s own assertion,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2017
I was elaborating a theory that after a disaster, a certain kind of information—superficial but not strictly trivial—bubbles up as soft news, in Styles and other “women’s sections.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2012
But the marchers were unable to continue when about 5,000 spectators jammed the street in front of the hotel where John son was elaborating on his summit-based hopes for world peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was elaborating upon my “legend” consistently and Luzan accepted my pathologies.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
