descriptor
Example Sentences
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Yesterday, the 222-year-old institution gained a new descriptor: American-owned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hopkins registered the trademark in 2018 and began contacting authors who had also used the descriptor — and the list was long, because the cocky, arrogant hero is a romance trope.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
The descriptor works for the artist’s latest album, “After Hours,” a collection of originals and standards that sees the 62-year-old Marx channel his inner, swinging Frank Sinatra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
The book is not unnecessarily maudlin but rather sharply present, which is also simply an accurate descriptor for much of Smith’s life and work.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025
Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
