elaborations

plural of elaboration

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of elaborations As members of Gen X and Millennials became parents, the general trend of having more money and time for children continued, resulting in elaborations of the concept of helicopter parenting. Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elaborations
Noun
  • Swift’s signature hairstyles have gone through just as many evolutions as her music.
    Anneke Knot, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025
  • History happened here with an unprecedented number of fashion revolutions and evolutions.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’ll be scenes that are inspired on certain realities, and there’ll be exaggerations.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And like the previous two, including an Emmy Award-winning 2022 series about Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the story of Ed Gein has a number of exaggerations and fabrications over its eight episodes.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Management changes, product overhauls, several bankruptcies, a stock market IPO and a return to Formula 1 racing are recent developments in the company's long history.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, Ukraine has already fully integrated the DELTA battlefield management system across all levels of its Armed Forces, allowing commanders to coordinate operations more efficiently and track battlefield developments in real time.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Performers milled on the street with bobbing paper mache heads of Uncle Sam and other caricatures.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The characters are bright, marionette-like caricatures whom the author constructs and moves ostentatiously in full view of the reader, revealing his artistic devices with a sense of absurd, mischievous humor.
    Nelly Klos September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Do this combination of 30-second progressions + 30-second recovery blocks for five rounds.
    J'ne Day-Lucore, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The aim at Anfield was always success but small progressions would have been accepted, considering Liverpool had been only the fourth-best team in the Premier League under his predecessor Gerard Houllier.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fireworks were also a story this season, interpreted as embroideries or opulent crystal decorations.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, the outing displayed an exploration of embellishment for Hudson as several styles featured intricate embroideries.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As fall progresses, officials, wildlife experts and virologists are in a watch-and-wait mode.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
  • While a primary variant might trigger a disease, secondary variants can alter how that disease develops and progresses.
    Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Charter presentation also emphasized enhancements made to the voice remote control service that Charter has developed in tandem with Comcast.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Respondents were asked to rank the top priorities for their organizations’ technology enhancements; 57% chose cybersecurity and risk management as one of their top technology objectives.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Elaborations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elaborations. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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