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Discover LudwigThe phrase "expound about" is not correct in standard written English
The correct usage would be "expound on" when discussing a topic in detail.
Example: "In her lecture, she will expound on the significance of renewable energy sources."
Alternatives: "elaborate on" or "discuss in detail"
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Tortorella, not surprisingly, was in no mood to expound about new beginnings Saturday morning.
My niece had to expound about leprosy at her bat mitzvah in April.
Time to listen as vaguely familiar-looking White House officials expound about how the president has this election in the bag.
So this is the first entry in our new, daily Old Music blog, a place where Guardian writers come to reminisce, wax lyrical and expound about favoured old songs.
Speaking in a dry Western drawl, the fourth-generation Nevadan added, "I don't want to expound about how great drugs are, but I will say that when it comes to drugs, marijuana is probably the best one.
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I want a database for the refugees that, if they come into the country" — again, as if the questions were synonymous — followed by more expounding about "the great Trojan Horse of all time".
For hours before a C-SPAN candra and a mostly empty chamber, he expounded about his concerns over the nine-year renewal of a broad Bush-era surveillance law, loading his remarks with references to Ben Franklin, colonialists and obscure semiannual intelligence reports.
Bill Gates Bill Gates expounded about "friction-free capitalism" in his 1995 book The Road Ahead.
"There have been numerous theories expounded about what might have happened to Fernando Alonso to cause his accident," writes Andrew Benson.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta guest starred as himself in "Black Light Attack!"; Liz is at home and watches Dr. Gupta on CNN as he expounds about the rise in female libido before menopause, referred to as the "Dirty 30s".
The Oscar-winning "Girl, Interrupted" actress made those claims in a recent interview with DuJour in which she expounds about her personal odyssey with the World War II drama "Unbroken," which tells of Olympic runner-turned-POW Louie Zamperini.
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