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
  • Stablecoins are often treated as satellites of U.S. monetary policy—dollar proxies that expand liquidity and shore up Treasury demand.
    Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • Trump’s memo will go into the history books as a moment when presidential power expanded to put under his control a military force aimed at U.S. civilians.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • Treat the customer relationship as a partnership, too, staying in active conversations about their needs and developing and launching tools and solutions to solve tactical, practical business problems.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Eggs in bags thrown on the ground will hatch in the spring and develop into larvae that could reinfest the plants.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • One such model is the external control arm (ECA), which leverages real-world data (RWD) to supplement or replace control groups, especially when enrolling patients in placebo arms is impractical or ethically complex.
    Sujay Jadhav, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Although less snow fell this year, the lake reached its full capacity when the winter snowpack started to melt and supplemented its levels.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 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 15 Jun. 2025.

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