describe
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Colleagues describe a talent for making people feel valued that succeeds even when they see it coming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
By contrast, participants who placed greater value on dreams and believed that dreaming had personal meaning tended to describe richer and more immersive experiences.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Scientists sometimes describe these clouds as a fire-generated thunderstorm because the fire itself provides the energy needed to build the cloud.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Both series meet a cultural moment many middle-aged women would call miraculous, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic corporations would describe as profitable.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 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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The researchers could also change the direction of that current by rotating the polarization of the two optical fields, which describes the direction in which the light waves oscillate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The 33-year-old cartoonist Smiling Stone Hwang now lives what she describes as a resilient life, after she was saved by first responders.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It describes someone who wants closeness, but worries that people in their life will eventually reject or abandon them.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Always expressive, she describes her style as more akin to a “Victorian parlor meets hunting lodge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
So he goes to a doctor, describes her symptoms, and asks for advice.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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U.S. officials described that regulatory ruling as a new trade barrier Canada was looking to impose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In an emergency video call with hundreds of cyber-security professionals, the firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made strange decisions and mistakes that no human hacker would have made.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In a social media post, Zelensky described his meeting with Trump as “good,” and thanked him for working with him to “protect the lives of Ukrainians and advance peace.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Boeing described certification efforts for new 737 MAX and 777 planes as on track with US air regulators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The coldness in the way he was always described as “the subject” or “the infant,” and never “my child,” or even the thing he was most hoping for...his real name, made Coal’s chest ache.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Published in the London Review of Books, external, Wilson said she "would be ashamed to have written any of this script", describing the film's narrative structure as "gimmicky."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
A paper describing the results, led by Stein, was published on July 27 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The plaintiffs asked the court to declare the surveillance policy unlawful, vacate it and prohibit Homeland Security from continuing to collect and maintain records describing individuals’ protected First Amendment activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Amazon said it remains committed to investing in AI, describing the layoffs as part of an effort to prioritize the initiatives it believes will have the greatest impact for customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
It's a compliment one rarely receives when describing an adolescence spent drinking Icees at the North Hills Mall.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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