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Secret police, or something very near that description, swept through Chicago from September to December 2025.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Describing a result as a 'victory for football' might seem like a trite cliche - but you won't find many neutrals disagreeing with that description of Spain's win in the 2026 World Cup final.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
After an ex blocks them by phone and on social media, they can still send a one-cent transfer with a short message begging for forgiveness in the transaction description.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the mathematical description of a quantum state, the real part represents the amplitude, while the imaginary part represents the phase.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
After the fifth door closed in my face, it dawned on me that come tomorrow, I might finally find out whether Frankie’s description of the textile mills had been true.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Mr. Dillon intersperses his more academic chapters with occasional descriptions of Shanghai’s neighborhoods, temples and shops as they appear today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The work connects two seemingly opposite descriptions of a single impurity moving through or remaining nearly motionless within a large collection of fermions, a system known as a Fermi sea.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
“It seemed like a weird talking point,” she observed, noting that the descriptions of the alleged discussions centered on everything but McConnell’s medical recovery.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Job descriptions often make qualifications or requirements seem more rigid than they actually are, says Henna Pryor, a workplace-performance expert who worked as a recruiter for almost a decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Gracious me, this packet is thick; I’ve got less than ten minutes to prepare all the scenes and I’ve barely made it past the character descriptions.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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