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describe

[dih-skrahyb] / dɪˈskraɪb /


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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

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

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

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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