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When praising women for embodying the qualities of men, beards were interchangeable with other male body parts as descriptive devices, even if such women did not actually possess them.

She criticized Smith for creating a speaking indictment, i.e., an overly descriptive charging document, that included “various nonessential allegations more akin to a narrative about the government’s theory of prosecution.”

Jing Gao, chief executive of a competing company, Fly by Jing, publicly condemned Chang’s actions in a newsletter, arguing, rightfully, that Chang had tried to trademark “a descriptive term for a cultural product, one that has existed in Chinese cuisine for hundreds of years.”

The high court’s unanimous decision upheld a lower court ruling that the ballot measure does not have an unfunded mandate and is descriptive enough to inform voters of its effect.

"Our findings parallel with other descriptive research showing that children's mental health plummeted during the pandemic."