evocative
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The trick with thrusters was evocative of what SpaceX has now been doing for years with booster rockets cruising back to earth, touching down in landing pads or being snared by launch towers.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Ben Sulayem has cited the evocative sound of V8s as one his main reasons, as well as lighter cars.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
He also divided the tracks into six “galleries” of seven songs each; Mr. Ehrlich titled the sections by the visual images that came to his mind from this highly evocative music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
At a Canadian Tire store in Montreal, a chain that sells hardware supplies and other goods, employees on Wednesday wore T-shirts bearing the evocative slogan: "We all play for Canada."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
There is something evocative in the idea that the material used to write code gave rise to the word itself: form became function.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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