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Cleveland Police Federation chairwoman Lauren Somerville said the loss of the officers was "unfathomable", adding: "Words cannot describe the pain the Cleveland Police family are feeling today."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Officials did not describe a motive, what led to the shooting or how investigators decided on Gomez as a suspect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

He said it was another "hybrid threat" to emerge in Germany, a term that Berlin uses to describe hostile acts of aggression short of unambiguous military attacks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The profusion of killing leads Mr. Winder to describe the contested Rhineland, across which so many rival armies have fought, as “a battlefield interrupted, every now and then, by a truce.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Wrestling, yes. That’s a good way to describe it.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

The Bioloon is the result of a public-private partnership launched by Charlotte Melia, an events entrepreneur, who describes herself as environmentally minded.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

In the second letter, signed “always,” Harp describes being envious of people “whose only ‘job’ seems to be to talk with you, and look pretty,” adding “I want that job!!”

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

You should know how long it lasts, where, geographically, it limits you from working, and how it describes a competitor.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

The result is a fastball that Quijano describes as “a short little bazooka at 90 miles an hour.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Charles’ law describes the relationship of the volume of a gas to its temperature.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In the ancient world, plagiarism was viewed quite negatively: The word “plagiarism” actually means “kidnapper” in Latin, and the Roman poet Horace described literary theft like a crow making itself beautiful with stolen feathers.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Passengers, who have taken to social media, have described the situation as "stressful" and a "worst case scenario" at the weekend, with some taking coaches before continuing their train journey with another operator.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

A United Nations investigation described Khashoggi's death as an "extrajudicial killing for which Saudi Arabia is responsible".

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters the talks had failed on Friday night, despite what he described as the administration’s willingness to give Canada the “best treatment” of any major U.S. trading partner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Just as a rhetorical question is one that is asked with no expectation of being answered, a hypothetical situation is one that is described with no expectation of it actually happening.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

That’s much more inflammatory language, but it also sounds like what you’re describing.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

In a now-removed video, Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26, had filmed himself walking to an empty beach during the Hindu holiday of Nyepi, describing the scene as "crazy".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Steinberg, an executive member of NexusHealth at McMaster and chief scientific officer, shareholder and co-founder of Espervita Therapeutics, recently co-authored preclinical research describing a promising drug candidate for advanced liver disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

So a US-led team of researchers grew some for around seven years, making them the "oldest ever", Paola Arlotta, the senior author of a new study describing the experiment, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Practice describing different timbres of music—play different types of music on Pandora, for example, and try to describe the timbres you hear, including the vocal timbre of the singer or instrumental timbres.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin