descriptor
Example Sentences
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But now, we have really refined down the descriptors—we haven’t taken the poetry out of it entirely; we’ve simplified it.
CJR’s report also was critical of the media’s “turbocharged” use of intentionally vague descriptors of anonymous sources such as “government official” or “American official,” which he said were often used “to mask congressional leakers.”
From Washington Times
As Colette remarked about “La Naissance du Jour,” a book she designated by no other descriptor than “feminine,” “You may have sensed in this novel that the novel does not exist?”
From Los Angeles Times
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is exploring descriptors for genetic population groups that might substitute for historic racial groups when appropriate in genetic research.
From Washington Post
Instead of using misleading thumbnail policy descriptors, take the time to clarify differing views in a way that does not implicate Democratic legislators as in favor of crime and Republicans as against education.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
