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describe

[dih-skrahyb] / dɪˈskraɪb /


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Guests were asked to go around the table and describe how they knew the ambassador or give a toast to her, according to people familiar with the dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In her address to the convention, Harris did describe the suffering in Gaza as “devastating” and said Palestinians deserved “dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.”

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Despite her enormous success in Hollywood, the actress has continued to describe her parents’ longtime La Quinta property as “home.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Astronomers use the term 'outflow' to describe material expelled from an object in space.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Later, that was how Angela DuPre would describe the airplane—over and over, to one investigator after another—until she was told never to speak of it again.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Discussing his India trip, the “Primetime” version of Hansen remembers an alleged witness to the kidnappings, who describes the perpetrator as a monstrous ancient evil lurking in the dark.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

The study describes how the researchers reconstructed the sequence of changes preserved in Karelia's rocks following the first major increase in atmospheric oxygen.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Law describes the “solemn cloisters” haunted by the apparition of Catherine Howard, the king’s fifth wife, who was executed after accusations of adultery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It is no coincidence that this describes aspects of the new LACMA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Radio 2 controller Helen Thomas described Scanlon as "incredibly warm and quick witted and proved to be extremely popular with the Radio 2 audience this summer".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

In the age of cheap, widely available AI tools, producing and circulating their content -- described as "pseudo-journalism" by the Columbia Journalism Review -- has never been easier.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

She also recalled a conversation with open-fire chef Francis Mallmann, who described fire as feminine.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Scientists have taken a major step toward understanding cancer in cats, opening what researchers once described as a genetic "black box."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

He found something that described a kind of surgery to correct skin discolorations.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The leader of the Catholic Church also addressed young people in his speech, describing them as "today's Church".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

"There are people who can't afford to live in cities, rents are out of step with salaries," she said, describing the eviction of Maricarmen as "the last straw".

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Plus, why do some Democrats keep describing one New York Republican House member as unbeatable?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

People with autism find it difficult, if not impossible, to do all of the things that I've been describing so far as natural and automatic human processes.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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