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descriptive

[dih-skrip-tiv] / dɪˈskrɪp tɪv /


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Is space-time simply a descriptive framework for relating those events?

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

The information companies gather on users can range from internal purchase history, to internet search histories, precise geolocation and descriptive demographics like age, race and class.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

Simple, descriptive lines take on stimulating contours, as in the opening of the first chapter: “Incurably insomniac, Anton Vowl turns on a light.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

It merely stated that, as a descriptive matter, the court no longer applies it.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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