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- v. present participle of describe.
Examples
“The high-value target team is expected to use any intelligence found at the bin Laden compound in the hunt, although a month after the raid analysts have found nothing "actionable," a term describing intelligence that leads to a strike or operation against a new al-Qaida target, two U.S. officials say.”
“He added that the fault occurred in the "real dynamics of the vehicle" - a term describing the weapon's trajectory and behavior - and could not have been revealed by underground explosive testing or by examining the components.”
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“Notable was the phrasing of a warning to Iran: that any action to block free transit of regional oil shipments and other commerce would be a "redline," a term describing an unacceptable action that would be countered with an American response.”
“It is a term describing both the personal perception of a lack of social norms, and the actual breakdown of social norms and values.”
“Let's dispense with the argument over the semantics right here: I think we can all agree there is nothing honourable about so-called honour killings, but it is the problem itself, not the correctness of the term describing it, that is at issue in this article.”
“Do not create a new term if a term describing a concept already exists.”
“Yet the word describing the relationship between husbands and wives is respect.”
“Isolette: the word makes me cringe, even now—the prettified, French-sounding “ette” at the end of a word describing a plastic cage that isolated you from me.”
“Field capacity" is the term describing soil particles holding all the water they can against the force of gravity.”
“Used as both a noun and a verb, the word describing a post made on the online Twitter message service is among more than 100 new terms revealed Thursday for the dictionary publisher's newest edition.”
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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