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describe

[dih-skrahyb] / dɪˈskraɪb /


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Did you ever use the word feminist to describe yourself?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Scientists describe this type of self-regulating process as homeostasis, the body's ability to maintain stable internal conditions even as its environment and physiological demands change.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Two of Musk’s most incisive critics, his ex-wife Justine Musk and former right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair, describe him as a gaslighter and a nuke, respectively.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Lorca’s words inspired me to write the lyrics and try to describe the impossibility of all those loves and stories.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Insecure was not a word I’d ever have used to describe Rachel.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

This measurement describes the amount of optical error in the system, or how far the incoming light deviates from an ideal, perfectly focused wavefront.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

He describes “Pepperpot City” as “an impressionistic journey . . . condensing my more than forty-five years of exploring Philadelphia’s encyclopedic culinary history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Palestine Action describes itself as a "direct action movement" that uses "disruptive tactics".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Martins describes it as an “exacerbation of inequality.”

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the dialogues he wrote he describes himself as mixing with the elite of English society, but he later claimed this was fiction not fact.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A substance described as metabolically neutral is generally understood to have limited effects on the body's metabolic processes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a "tragic" incident and said the regional government was providing help to affected families.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Weis and many job candidates I interviewed described job interviews that happened without humans—the applicants made a video recording of themselves responding to questions posed digitally on the call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

As she described being overwhelmed, her band slowly revved up her song “Wrecking Ball.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Sprinkles hopped onto the table and listened as Roz described their journey.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

These signatures are important because they differ from predictions associated with Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory, a long-established framework for describing how interacting quantum particles behave in one-dimensional systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

He recalled visiting his mother in the hospital during her illness, describing how she hid her leg under a blanket and joked that doctors had mistakenly amputated it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Speaking at a Brussels summit Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Starlink services were still being restored, describing the disruption as "a very unpleasant and dangerous surprise".

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Fiscal policy communication is getting much better, she said, and coordination with monetary policy has improved, describing economic fundamentals as “still solid”.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The doctors then filled out a questionnaire, describing each selected patient’s condition.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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