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having many features or details
He told a descriptive story about his trip to Spain that captured our attention. An overly descriptive account of the movie that left little to the imagination.
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Provide descriptive button language to clarify the next steps and proactively update them on their progress.
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Forrester, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Conversations that are similar are then grouped together by theme or topic, and each cluster receives a new descriptive title and summary.
—Sam Sabin, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
Ensuring all multimedia content is accessible by adding descriptive text for images and closed captions, transcripts and audio descriptions.
—Ran Ronen, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
The enhanced captions — or Expressive Captions as Google calls them — add descriptive phrases to try and capture non-spoken moments in dialogue; think [gasp] or [applause].
—Allison Johnson, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2024
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
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In addition to vinyl, which is now a No. 1 bestseller on the retailer, Amazon’s lineup includes crewneck sweatshirts, graphic tees, CDs, cassettes, and posters featuring the abstract illustration.—
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Beal would also have to waive his no-trade clause; presumably the teams involved would ascertain whether this was a realistic possibility before marching headlong into a deal.—
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To have reactions be realistic when a gun's going off right here [hand motions by his head].—
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This collaboration breathes fresh energy into the genre, creating a vivid tableau of love, deception, and undercover pursuits.—
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The bold and vivid blue may be the most noticeable change to shoppers.—
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Unfortunately, Erskine already is on shaky ground with Viscount David Brooke (a subtly expressive Mark Strong), who has recently replaced his deceased father as editor of The London Chronicle, and doesn’t share his high regard for Erskine’s flamethrower prose.—
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Bud is a schnauzer mix with deep, expressive eyes; beige snoot and leg stockings; and a white chest, with the rest of his fur a charcoal black.—
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According to Travel & Leisure, the All Stars villa, known as Ludus Magnus, is nestled between a picturesque mountain range and a wine valley in Franschhoek.—
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Crystal Scott grew up playing in the picturesque San Gabriel Mountains, but her home at the base of the mountains was one of thousands destroyed in the Eaton Fire.—
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Throughout much of the 1960s, MacGraw spent years working at Harper's Bazaar magazine as a photographic assistant and, later, at Vogue as model and stylist.—
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And because the find predated the advent of digital cameras and drones, limited photographic evidence remains for paleontologists to study further.—
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Still, Republicans have said that even if that call was accurate, the C.I.A. failed in understanding other key events: how quickly the Afghan government could collapse, how Bashar al-Assad would flee Syria and how Hamas was preparing to attack Israel.—
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While some might have considered the project too niche, Kyle’s intuition about the product’s appeal seems to have been accurate, with even the X Games getting a taste of the product earlier this year.—
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The sponsorship will take center stage at three specific events: the Cook Out Clash on February 2nd, Phoenix Raceway on March 9th, and Richmond Raceway on August 16th.—
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Trump deployed active-duty troops to the border in his first term, and the previous Biden administration did as well, but both were in response to specific instances.—
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“Descriptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descriptive. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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