evocative
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She has channeled that into art, writing the evocative and hilarious tween comedy PEN15.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026
The puffed-up version is a lot less interesting and humanly evocative than the true version.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
"That photo of the ripped kippah – there's something so kind of evocative about it," he reflected.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Ohs works in evocative details: inserted frames of color, like mood flashes, or a shot of a lonely phone ringing, never getting picked up.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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This Week in Words: April 13–19, 2019
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"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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