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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

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

It was purely descriptive: a recognition that social and cultural factors shape human behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

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

The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them, reverent or irreverent, descriptive, either poetic or disparaging.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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