describable

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I was happy, however, to see Terence Nance, whose great surrealist-operatic HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness” is describable only at length, included.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

Looking back, I was seeking my own instruction: I wanted to challenge myself to expand the field of the describable.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

“We started to walk around and it was extremely sad, it was not describable the devastation and the sound of the explosion,” he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2020

Dr. Garibaldi recommended a few resources to learn more about this idea, which is sometimes called something like describable or closed-form numbers.

From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2019

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos