evocative
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Luciano had a singular style calling a strike, a twisting motion evocative of the football quarterback Lamar Jackson hurling a contorted cross-body pass to a receiver at the sidelines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
A close look at the evocative cover reveals a sneak preview.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
There’s a bit of “Jaws” in “Beast of War,” which is also evocative of Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat” while being something of a watered-down version of both.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
There is something evocative in the idea that the material used to write code gave rise to the word itself: form became function.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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