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description

[dih-skrip-shuhn] / dɪˈskrɪp ʃən /




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Instead, the lawyer collects basic facts: the accident report, property damage, a brief description of injuries and medical bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Langdale KC suggested the description of Calocane in the records "obscured" his risk for anyone else reading them.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Indeed, the March FOMC-meeting minutes noted that “some participants judged that there was a strong case for a two-sided description of the committee’s future interest-rate decisions in the post-meeting statement.‘

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

"We call it 'synthetic' because its mathematical description resembles the behavior of a magnetic field, even though physically it isn't there. As a result, light begins to 'bend,' much like electrons moving in cyclotron orbits."

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

Though he must have been terrified at being ripped from all that was familiar to him, his later description made it sound almost like an adventure.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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