describe
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But an AI assistant hears travelers describe their budgets, preferences and plans in their own words.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
"But its expanding uses also reveal how people are responding to that impulse. Some embrace it. Some exaggerate it for laughs. Others subvert it entirely to describe stepping back from the relentless pursuit of more."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The word “deadpan” is often used to describe the humor in these books, though that suggests an element of irony that is not present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The researchers also examined an early account that may describe the solar corona, the Sun's faint outer atmosphere that becomes visible to the naked eye during a total solar eclipse.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
His early biographers describe him as so strong he can bend the iron ring of a horseshoe.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Rispoli describes the scene as a moment that has helped Goblikon thrive in the comedy world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Bern was reported to the police for theft and fraud, which she describes as a "terrible and devastating betrayal".
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
In a movie industry petrified of losing people’s interest, there’s something almost subversive about “not hiding from characters talking,” as McDonagh describes his specialty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Fidelity describes how closely a quantum operation matches its intended result.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Dudgeon” is the sort of old-fashioned term one rarely hears nowadays, but the condition it describes remains all too familiar.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Rolling Stones icons Mick Jagger and Keith Richards visited before a concert a decade prior, and in 2004, rapper Shifty Shellshock described it to The Times as feeling “like where the Sopranos would go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
In what’s being described as an unlikely comeback, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection on Oct.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
He has spoken of turning military achievements into diplomatic ones, a nod to negotiated solutions, and has described Netanyahu’s goal of regime change in Iran during the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign as too ambitious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The programme will "not shy away from 'the darkest days of our past', as His Majesty has described them," a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said, ahead of the tour of the former colonies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
I described the hinge that never quite fastened, the edges that didn’t line up, and the paint that dried a little bumpy—so many imperfections that usually would have bugged me but didn’t.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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In describing Capra’s bumpy apprenticeship, “Frank Capra” doubles as a history of Hollywood’s early days and its transition from silent films to talkies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
But she tends to be less concrete about his voice, describing it at one point as “midnight-soft.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
"I think for a public figure that puts Jews' safety at great risk," he added, describing himself as socially moderate and religiously conservative in his expansive home nestled among vibrant fall foliage.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
During the interview, Dench recalled being invited to lunch by former MI6 chief Sir David Spedding, describing the experience as "very exciting".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
But I had never heard of the job described in the nuanced way that Luc was describing it.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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