description
Example Sentences
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Her charges didn’t make sense to her family, nor did she fit the description of a suspected international wine thief.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
All registration statements External link include the basics like a business description and financial data.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
It’s a description of a room where groupthink had replaced honest conversation — not through force, but through accumulated avoidance.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Bis said agents “briefly questioned” Pineda because he matched the description of the subject of an operation, and that he was released after being identified.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing description
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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