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  • adjective rhetoric expanded
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of elaborate.

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  • adjective developed or executed with care and in minute detail

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Examples

  • A day later, Palin elaborated on her support in a race that proved embarrassing to the GOP establishment.

    Sarah Palin's Election Scorecard AP 2010

  • "The fair helps guava producers market themselves and promote the consumption of guava products while making the public familiar with the various products elaborated from the fruit," said Mara Magdalena Gallegos Alvarado´, in charge of tourism in Calvillo.

    December guava fair in Calvillo, Aguascalientes 2009

  • "The fair helps guava producers market themselves and promote the consumption of guava products while making the public familiar with the various products elaborated from the fruit," said Mara Magdalena Gallegos Alvarado´, in charge of tourism in Calvillo.

    December guava fair in Calvillo, Aguascalientes 2009

  • Sunday, Irvin elaborated: No one is perfect as a person.

    CBS' Davis gives Knight some advice 2009

  • "The fair helps guava producers market themselves and promote the consumption of guava products while making the public familiar with the various products elaborated from the fruit," said Mara Magdalena Gallegos Alvarado´, in charge of tourism in Calvillo.

    December guava fair in Calvillo, Aguascalientes 2009

  • Mr. McCain elaborated in an interview with ABC afterwards, saying that working with the California liberal has been an unpleasant experience because Barbara Boxer personalizes the political discourse that we have and that's why she's had so very little effect of any kind in the political process.

    Senatorial Courtesy Has Its Limits John Fund 2010

  • Its technology is a stroke of genius that has been elaborated from the DS-164.

    New Sofas from de Sede 2008

  • Its technology is a stroke of genius that has been elaborated from the DS-164.

    Calligaris Opens Flagship Store in Milan, Italy 2008

  • It is an instrument in the service of a global artistic project, frequently subordinated to a narrative, or, at least, discursive aim; if it submits a priori to some formal rule that constrains the contents and, in a certain way, creates them, the page layout is generally elaborated from a semantically determined content, where the breakdowns has already assured discretization in successive enunciations known as panels.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Our dependence upon them, for the sort of plans we have elaborated, is indicated by a recent press dispatch.

    The Lesson of Iraq 1969

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