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The term “detailed” is deployed across literary works to denote thoroughness and precision, whether describing anatomical features, historical events, or intricate plans. Authors use it to signal that a subject is presented with comprehensive specificity, such as the minute pathology of bones ([1]) or an elaborate recording of military orders ([2], [3]). In narrative and analytical texts alike, “detailed” qualifies accounts and classifications that invite readers to grasp complexities—ranging from the itemized records of recipes ([4]) to the systematic arrangement of strategies ([5]) and even to the nuanced recounting of personal histories ([6]). This emphasis on complete and exact description enriches the reader’s experience by conveying both the factual substance and the methodical nature of the subject matter ([7], [8]).
  1. —Our knowledge of the minute pathology of the bones is far more complete and detailed than that of any other structure.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
  2. I received your dispatch describing the man Clark, detailed to assassinate me.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  3. He was accordingly detailed to carry the news.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  4. Any mediocre cook, gaining possession of a choice collection of detailed and itemized recipes would have been placed in an enviable position.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  5. For strategic droppings, systematic arrangements could be made through proper official channels, and a regular air operation detailed to do the job.
    — from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
  6. I won't enter into a detailed account of their boyhood and youth, but will only mention a few of the most important events.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Method of systematic fixing of impressions; of detailed, consecutive records.
    — from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
  8. From his detailed report of the ceremony we may gather some particulars which are not noticed in the briefer accounts which I have just summarised.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

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