descriptive

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Importantly, these behavioral differences were predictive, not just descriptive.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

“For a long time, captions have been made by hearing people,” says Stern, who collaborated with d/Deaf/hard-of-hearing artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel, whose 2023 documentary “The Tuba Thieves” reimagined closed captioning as a descriptive playground.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

It’s time to look beyond the alphabet for something more descriptive.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

In a bid to purge subjectivity, the definitions were written in a style that was minutely descriptive but might charitably be called ungainly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

"Anything. Anything descriptive. A room. Or a house. Or something you once lived in or something-- you know. Just as long as it's descriptive as hell."

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger