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descriptive

[dih-skrip-tiv] / dɪˈskrɪp tɪv /


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Much of her sophomore album “Vanity” has main character energy, and Lovestory’s “Telenovela,” with its extended metaphors of Barbarella bad bitches, “tragica erotica,” and using “su lengua pa cambiar el canal” is the descriptive centerpiece.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

It’s time to look beyond the alphabet for something more descriptive.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

It was purely descriptive: a recognition that social and cultural factors shape human behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Previously, researchers could only search for descriptive metadata and then had to download the full datasets to access raw sequences.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025

She searched in her mind for the right descriptive word.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry




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