describe
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"There are no words that can truly describe the heartbreak and devastation his parents, sisters and our whole family are experiencing," Jones said on the fund-raiser page.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The researchers also describe Cajon Pass as an "earthquake gate": a fault junction that may help determine whether a large earthquake remains limited to one fault or continues across both fault systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
For Treasury investors, there’s no other way to describe the past three months other than brutal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Max wasn’t even sure he quite knew the right words to describe her clothes.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
A material's critical current describes the maximum current it can carry before resistance and energy loss appear.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ferguson describes growing up in Govan as "the making of me".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
He describes Casablancas and Co. as the last in a lineage of quintets that, collectively, have spanned five decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“First, a lookout right outside International Arrivals. The lookout identifies Sara and describes her to the others. Second, someone in the terminal to see if she takes the bus or the tram.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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In an interview with the BBC, one passenger described the moment he realised that something was wrong.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The study examined what the authors described as “academic buoyancy,” or how students respond to and recover from common academic pressures and setbacks in daily learning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Mitochondria are often described as the powerhouses of the cell because they produce much of the energy our bodies need to grow, move, repair tissues, and carry out everyday functions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
A woman convinced her former partner she had given birth to two children who most likely did not exist in what a High Court judge described as an "extraordinary" and "elaborate campaign of deceit".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
I nodded glumly, then described the events at lunch today: the way Oliver had waved me over; Rachel embarrassing me in front of everyone; the expulsion from my new lunch table.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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These included radiocarbon dating, unusual patterns recorded in tree rings, and historical records describing ruptures that broke the ground surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Greg Bresnitz, who had already been working on automation in the marketing department at the blockchain platform Optimism, was in the audience when a conference keynote speaker started describing the “marketing engineer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Off-screen, Carr calls out the weirdness of a plastic surgeon describing himself that way.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a Fox News interview, Netanyahu also praised an Israeli passenger who helped overpower the attacker, identifying him only as Yanik and describing him as a plumber.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Leo couldn’t understand the words, but the song was plaintive and bittersweet, as if she were describing a home she could never return to.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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