as in expanded
to express more fully and in greater detail
in your complaint, don't just say that your neighbor has been harassing you; enlarge on what you mean by that
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One Beijing site, which expanded by nearly 50% since 2020, is involved in the production of the vaunted DF-26 medium-range ballistic missile, according to the China Aerospace Studies Institute.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025 -
Since then, Butterfly World expanded to include two aviaries for tropical birds and an interactive lorikeet encounter area.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Nardin said the Paiter Suruí people, an indigenous community whose threatened by deforestation, have developed a mix of coffee production, eco-tourism and jewelry made from forest products to generate income while protecting their land.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than 95 percent of nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries with almost perfect purity.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Enlarged (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlarged%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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