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[dih-skrip-shuhn] / dɪˈskrɪp ʃən /




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Officers found a 44-year-old man matching the suspect's description nearby and arrested him.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Her account begins with a description of the Ithacan king as “a complicated man” who, in strikingly passive phrasing, “wandered and was lost.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

But the man’s family and speakers at the vigil have said that description of events was unlikely, both because of Salgado Araujo’s nature and because they did not trust the agency’s recounting.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

Think about every bullet point in the job description and ask yourself “Could I do this?” instead of “Have I done this before?”

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

But, along with graphic descriptions of Fremlin’s predatory behavior, she explores how Munro, a frequent New Yorker contributor, mined both her own difficult childhood and her daughter’s ordeals in her fiction.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Poems of the period were either descriptions of objects, plants, weather conditions, geographical features or emotional states, or they followed a narrative.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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