enlarge (on or upon)

as in to expand
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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Verb
  • Look, $100 million on initiatives like expanding atheism in Nepal.
    Linda Qiu, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Immigrant advocates have pushed to shore up those protections with a federal bill that would expand visa eligibility for workers cooperating with regulators to expose labor violations, so far without success.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Núñez Vicente initially developed the design for economy cabins before last year premiering a business class/first class iteration.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The series is developed and produced through Antosca’s overall deal at UCP, where he’s been based since 2017.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
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  • And secondly, the growth of supermassive black holes through the merger chain of progressively larger and larger black holes (triggered as galaxies collide and merge) may be supplemented by the objects voraciously feasting on surrounding gas and dust.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Elsie supplements her work as an adjunct professor in theoretical physics by offering up herself as a fake girlfriend.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Enlarge (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlarge%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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