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descriptor

[dih-skrip-ter] / dɪˈskrɪp tər /


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It’s as unambiguous a descriptor as you’ll find and has returned 43% year-to-date—four times as much as the S&P 500.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

“Soft power” may in fact be the most apt descriptor of a cultural test’s goal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

That “consume” has become the go-to descriptor for how we interact with films points to a larger denigration of the medium itself.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

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




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