descriptive
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Steven was very descriptive about the shot or angle he needed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Easily accessible generative artificial intelligence tools, such as Google's Veo and OpenAI's Sora, enable the creation of realistic imagery using just a few descriptive words.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
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
In a bid to purge subjectivity, the definitions were written in a style that was minutely descriptive but might charitably be called ungainly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
“I’m feeling apprehensive,” he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing descriptive
Expository Writing, List 1
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Achievement First 5th Grade IA 1 Words
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STAAR English II: Composition, Revision, and Editing
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