ELABORATION Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

elaboration

noun

as in evolution

the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced the elaboration of the Internet from an exclusive computer network into a worldwide communications network of colossal proportions

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as in exaggeration

the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts the eyewitness was deemed unreliable because of his obvious elaboration of what he had actually seen

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Recent Examples of elaboration The navy did not say how the 16 were encountered, and the Salvadoran military did not respond to requests for elaboration. —

Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026 Blue home shirts, with not much detail or elaboration, beyond a red collar and some other brief splashes of colour. —

Nick Miller, New York Times, 12 June 2026 Every elaboration of a framework adds stakeholders, dependencies and reputational investments that must be honored before the framework can be revised. —

Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 But only two days later, the operation was put on hold without much elaboration, other than that Pakistan and other countries requested it to move negotiations forward that would end the war. —

Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 7 May 2026 Far from settling the debate, Thursday’s elaborations are likely to only further stoke the controversy. —

Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026 Souvenirs of a romanticized fin-de-siècle Ruritania are presented without interest or elaboration. —

Literary Hub, 1 May 2026 Souvenirs of a romanticized fin-de-siècle Ruritania are presented without interest or elaboration. —

Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026 The pleas were brief and without much elaboration. —

Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026

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Noun

The backstory The Ranch’s history traces back to the early days of Yellowstone—in which the Ranch had a seat at the table when discussing the formation of the town of Big Sky, the evolution of ranching and logging in the Northern Rockies, and the region’s overall wilderness preservation.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2026
He is best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation, a concept that transformed modern understanding of the early universe and the evolution of the big bang.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 June 2026