descriptor
Example Sentences
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Mallori Johnson plays her sister Anaia: shy, retreating and “emotional,” a descriptor that lands like an insult on her psyche.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Holzhauer chose the descriptor “game show villain” when he returned for a champions’ tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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
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
