Synonyms of elaborating

elaborating

verb

present participle of elaborate

as in unfolding

to gradually become clearer or more detailed

as mankind's understanding of the universe has elaborated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unfolding
• evolving
• developing
• progressing
• growing
• proceeding
• emerging
• maturing
• forging
• marching
• advancing
• blossoming
• ripening
• getting along
• getting on
• playing out
• faring
• materializing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of elaborating

Murphy confirmed the news while speaking with Vogue in 2026, elaborating on some potential plot details as well. — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026

Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said, without elaborating, that the group's operations were defensive and would stop once attacks on Yemen stopped. — Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026

Forms of slave knowledge, overlaid on Indigenous ones, were influential in treating dysentery and elaborating antidotes for poisonings. — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026

Without elaborating, prosecutors have said since December that the parents were stabbed. — Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026

Yet at some point the WNBA’s eligibility rule could become a legal dispute, which gives the WNBA and WNBPA reason to consider elaborating on its eligibility requirement. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Including those at the barracks, more than 30 people have been killed in recent days, Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said, without elaborating. — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 15 July 2026

The dialectically deft characters in his movies aren’t talking heads but talking bodies, elaborating a world of cultural and rhetorical elegance from the sublimation of lust and the dream of love. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

After some behind-the-scene friction on Stranger Things, which Harbour and Brown have both acknowledged without elaborating on details, the two appear to have patched things up. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 26 June 2026