descriptor

Example Sentences

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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

They’re calling it “mysterious” and underscoring the name “radiation” fog, which is the scientific descriptor for such natural fog events — not an indication that they carry radioactive material.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2025

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