descriptor
Example Sentences
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It’s as unambiguous a descriptor as you’ll find and has returned 43% year-to-date—four times as much as the S&P 500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Holzhauer chose the descriptor “game show villain” when he returned for a champions’ tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
That “consume” has become the go-to descriptor for how we interact with films points to a larger denigration of the medium itself.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
The descriptor works for the artist’s latest album, “After Hours,” a collection of originals and standards that sees the 62-year-old Marx channel his inner, swinging Frank Sinatra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
