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described

adjective as in alleged

adjective as in specified

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In 1998, she co-wrote a law review article, titled “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases,” that described the tensions.

She described the recent wave of mergers as “marriages of weakness,” not strength.

As we described it back in 2017, “The company’s app lets people find out who, nearby, is already heading out to a restaurant that they like, then tack on an order of their own.”

In climate science, vulnerability generally describes the likelihood that a country will experience negative impacts from storms and other extreme weather events.

From Vox

A high school teacher in Arlington gave students a question that asked them to insert the name of a chemical element to fill out a sentence describing how George Floyd died beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in May.

Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.

It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”

The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

Spencer, 27,  is variously described as a writer and a stand-up comic.

The training, at least as described by the U.S. military, is incredibly basic.

You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.

In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.

What they would have said to the £150,000 spent on the present building can be better imagined than described.

By what word is the relation between “pendulum” and “a smile and tear” described?

They told us of their visit to the Great Eastern, what a gigantic ship it was, what a marvel, and described its every feature.

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On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to described, such as: purported, so-called, stated, supposed, averred, and declared.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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