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describe

[dih-skrahyb] / dɪˈskraɪb /


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Winthrop coined the term “cognitive stunting” to describe this effect on children.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

"I can't describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this," Titmus wrote on Instagram.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

More recently, however, human-driven climate forcing has produced what the researchers describe as an "exceptional" shift in the way climate variability in the two regions is connected.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Lewis's daughter Hermione said: "No words can describe what an amazing, thoughtful, and strong woman she was."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

That poem, aptly titled “The Bells,” uses so many different words to describe the sounds made by bells that Mr. Poe evidently ran out and had to invent a new one: “tintinnabulation.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Tarlov describes the encounter in her new book “I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends,” out Sept. 15.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

In “Hey Jude,” a cycle of syllables describes taking a sad song and making it better.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

President Trump has a speaking style that he describes himself as "the weave".

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

"Instead, the observations are consistent with a different phenomenon known as 'gluon saturation,' predicted by the theory of quantum chromodynamics, which describes the strong force," Tapia Takaki said.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

In a critical sense, the police officers whom Klinger describes performed better because their senses narrowed: that narrowing allowed them to focus on the threat in front of them.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Nathaniel Keohane, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions – an independent environmental organisation – described the move as "a giant step backward".

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

These findings described cellular responses in a laboratory model.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

An online fundraiser described Thakur as “a caring, loving, selfless, and generous young woman who gave so much of herself to others.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

The enclosures were described by facility staff as "'calming areas' for detainees to deescalate and have time alone," it said.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

The wicker basket was large and shaped like a gondola, just as Admiral Faucet had described.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Kavya Krishnamurthy, from the spring 2021 semester, responded to a University of Chicago prompt about her archnemesis by describing a Mountain School chicken at war with her to protect its eggs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Wu said the project demonstrates how information theory can move beyond simply describing uncertainty and instead become a tool for making better decisions.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

"I am truly so grateful to have her as my mum," she said, describing her as "one of a kind".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Anthropic has released a 154-page report describing how bad actors used its Claude AI system for state-sponsored surveillance, propaganda operations and more.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Osiander, in his anonymous introduction to Copernicus’s On the Revolutions, insisted that Copernicus should only be read as presenting an hypothesis, not as describing how the world really is.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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