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descriptive

[dih-skrip-tiv] / dɪˈskrɪp tɪv /


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Steven was very descriptive about the shot or angle he needed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Readers of “The Marble Faun” will find Hawthorne at the height of his descriptive abilities, particularly in his accounts of Roman masterworks, which qualify as artworks themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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

Big Bird is saying that Big Bird is merely a descriptive name of the type of animal he is, and that he wants a particular name.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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