description
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It’s a power that is easily mishandled and abused, but then there are authors such as Charles Dickens, who knew how to harness the full potency of description.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Physicists have spent decades trying to combine these frameworks into a single description of nature.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
“The light-filled residence was designed for seamless indoor-outdoor living, featuring a spectacular open floor plan,” the description read.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
When officers arrived, they tried to approach a man who matched that description; he ran away and entered a nearby business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
She’d seemed dubious, because even the description had upset me, but she went back to the store and bought the entire series in hardcover.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
One user described them to the BBC as a "game-changer" because they can give audio descriptions of current locations and read out visible text like restaurant menu options.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
While these intuitions are attempting to insert women into the male-dominated picture of the Viking age, descriptions of women’s lives and their social or cultural influence tend to be limited.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
“I was taken aback by how intense and vivid the descriptions were, and not only detailed, but very viscerally described … Mona Awad is not a generic prose writer,” Ah Sing says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Without technological help, departments were left working with partial descriptions taken from grainy surveillance footage of suspect vehicles, Rodriguez said.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
He dug down through the descriptions of skin changes due to trauma.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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