as in graphical
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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Recent Examples of descriptive
My descriptive passages that were intended only for the artist are famously long-winded, and sometimes go on for pages for a single panel.
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2025
To become adaptable to emerging trends, expand beyond descriptive analytics and pilot AI for predictive purposes such as developing flexible business development strategies.
—Gaurav Tewari, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Did working with great artists over the years, like Kevin O’Neill in League, influence your descriptive writing?
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Considering the Republican National Committee has filed more than 130 nationwide, and only did four of those seven, a drop in the bucket might be more accurately descriptive.
—Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2025
To become adaptable to emerging trends, expand beyond descriptive analytics and pilot AI for predictive purposes such as developing flexible business development strategies.
—Gaurav Tewari, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Did working with great artists over the years, like Kevin O’Neill in League, influence your descriptive writing?
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Considering the Republican National Committee has filed more than 130 nationwide, and only did four of those seven, a drop in the bucket might be more accurately descriptive.
—Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descriptive
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Wally Hall,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Going into the weekend, Hard Rock Bet released a graphic showing that most of Tampa Bay favored the Kansas City Chiefs — who lost to the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday, 40-22.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Yet others are realistic: any action here will anger some corner of the Democratic coalition that, at the moment, is far from unified or confident that their team in Washington knows what’s next.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Bregman represented a unique opportunity who did not seem like a realistic option as the Cubs quickly checked off items early in the offseason, building upon a roster that is already favored to win the division.—
Patrick Mooney,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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The design of the car is a vivid homage to Shaquille O'Neal's illustrious NBA career in the 1990s.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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The display delivers sky-high contrast and rich, vivid colors, with ample brightness and wide viewing angles.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
8 Feb. 2025
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While Wallace and Gromit boast fluid and highly expressive movement, Norbot was quite the opposite.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Right now, that’s Day, a bold, loud and expressive performer who steals the show in supporting roles and creates characters that stay just on the safe side of annoying.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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This picturesque tourist destination, with its challenging geography and traffic issues, provides an ideal testing ground for the technology.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
5 Feb. 2025
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She’s already hosted author signings, book clubs and mixers for Colorado romance writers and is fielding requests from boudoir photographers to use the picturesque building as a photo backdrop.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
The Denver Post,
4 Feb. 2025
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Conservatively estimated at 75,000 images but likely somewhere closer to 80,000, Harris’s prodigious output—pictures taken for the paper supplemented by his private studio work and general photographic curiosity—beautifully and poetically paints a picture of Black life in mid-20th-century America.—
Robert Alan Grand,
ARTnews.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The British composer Cyril Scott sent a condolence card with a brooding photographic portrait attached.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The 4-foot-diameter (1.2-meter-diameter) telescope’s primary goal is to observe dark matter and dark energy and to create the largest and most accurate three-dimensional map of the universe.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Forecasts have to take the changing climate into account to be accurate, no matter who is creating the forecast.—
Christine Wiedinmyer,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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After Moulson visited Haymes at Dartmouth, Moulson would send Haymes video clips of his game, highlighting specific areas to improve.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Get ‘much more specific’ Both in bullets about team work and those about the individual’s work, Nawaz likes get a sense of what the candidate actually did.—
Gili Malinsky,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Descriptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descriptive. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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