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It can be tempting to describe these well-meaning characters as everyday people trying to do their best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Physicists often describe this universal behavior using a mathematical framework known as conformal field theory.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Fourth, you describe it as her telling you that she was “finding herself.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
For Treasury investors, there’s no other way to describe the past three months other than brutal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“It’s true I was saying ‘Toro, toro,’ but only to describe to Miss Lumley something that happened between our master and mistress.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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One self-styled journalist describes the harassment as ‘an intelligence-gathering mission.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Clayton describes himself as a “working supervisor” who conducts arraignments and represents clients at preliminary and other hearings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Accuracy describes how close a measurement is to the correct value, while precision reflects how consistently that measurement can be reproduced.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
While stressing that psilocybin is not a cure for cancer, he describes its potential impact on some patients as "revolutionary".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
When my mom describes it all, she skips over the interrogation and the panic and says it was a time of three miracles—three things that couldn’t have happened without the intervention of angels.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Expect Gothic vibes courtesy of organist Clark Wilson, whom The Times has described as “one of the country’s leading theater organists and organ conservators.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Premier League chief executive Richard Masters described the disciplinary case and the decision by an independent commission as the "most significant in Premier League history".
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Senate aides described agitators testing the limits of legal behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
He described a heightened competition to capture users’ expression of “intent” — or tasks that people want to perform.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
One witness described the incoming wave as a “wall of pitch-black water.”
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Off-screen, Carr calls out the weirdness of a plastic surgeon describing himself that way.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
BBC director general Matt Brittin also paid tribute to Dame Esther, describing her as a "legend of British broadcasting" whose contribution to public life was "immeasurable".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The way he’s describing it is essentially we’re in an emergency situation, we’re in a kind of something that’s similar to a war,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Protecting nature is “a moral issue,” Newsom said, describing a “relationship we have to what’s above us, and … how that connects us to our Creator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The case contained a secret compartment, in which Ames had stashed a document describing the CIA's relationship with the spy, along with his photograph; Ames never found it again.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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