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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
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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
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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
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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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