descriptive
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Steven was very descriptive about the shot or angle he needed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
It’s time to look beyond the alphabet for something more descriptive.
From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025
It was purely descriptive: a recognition that social and cultural factors shape human behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Previously, researchers could only search for descriptive metadata and then had to download the full datasets to access raw sequences.
From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025
“One fart deserves another!” her father had joked, making up funny horse stories, complete with vividly descriptive sound effects, all to amuse Polly.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
Vocabulary lists containing descriptive
Expository Writing, List 1
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Achievement First 5th Grade IA 1 Words
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STAAR English II: Composition, Revision, and Editing
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