descriptive

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Descriptive information, such as a bird’s diet or behavior, is often foundational to broader insights into bird ecology and evolution, they note, and much of it comes from fieldwork in the neotropics.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 8, 2023

Descriptive representation, in turn, lends legitimacy to the assembly: citizens seem to find decisions more acceptable when they are made by people like themselves.

From Scientific American • Oct. 27, 2022

In his scholarly work, Dr. Nunberg published papers on topics including “Indexicality and Deixis” and “Indexical Descriptions and Descriptive Indexicals.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2020

Descriptive and matter-of-fact, it would not implicitly assign aggressor and victim, but would flatly convey that danger — emotional, possibly legal — lay ahead.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2014

A Descriptive Commentary on the Sonatas in the light of Schnabel's Interpretations; giving an �sthetic Appreciation of each Sonata, with an Outline of the Development of the Sonata Form in Beethoven's hands.

From The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Buck, Dudley