describer

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The brother of Akram, the hostage-taker, claimed he had “mental health issues,” and Siddiqui’s lawyer once describer her as in “total psychic pain.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2022

While science historians recognize Colden's work, there have been no notable revisions to botanical history, like revising a species' history and naming her as its describer, and there is still no genus named for her.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2021

By that logic, to single out A Christmas Prince’s audio description at all—even to praise it—is to suggest that the audio describer failed in some way at his job.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2018

Hence the eighteenth-century lexicographer’s admiration for explorers: “The adventurer upon unknown coasts, and the describer of distant regions” is to be welcomed, he declared, because they “enlarge our knowledge”.

From Nature • Dec. 18, 2018

We shall now present him under a different aspect, as an eloquent and almost unrivalled describer of nature.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various