descriptor

Example Sentences

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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

“Incredibly fast,” boasts the descriptor for this month’s Big Cottonwood in Salt Lake City.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2025

A severity descriptor on that alert sent it to weather radios and the nation’s Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which blasts weather warnings to cellphones to blare an alarm.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

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