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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe.

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Examples

  • For "nonconformist" read "dissident," and for "dissident" read "dangerous": the term describes any art, including political, religious and Surrealist work, that did not hew to the narrow, state-sanctioned confines of Socialist Realism.

    NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011

  • For "nonconformist" read "dissident," and for "dissident" read "dangerous": the term describes any art, including political, religious and Surrealist work, that did not hew to the narrow, state-sanctioned confines of Socialist Realism.

    NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011

  • The phrase describes the melding of patriotism with a kind of non-denominational white-bread deism: it encompasses both explicit religiosity in public life the references to God in our founding documents and less well-defined but still-powerful expressions, such as the idea that the 9/11 dead are martyrs.

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • The phrase describes the melding of patriotism with a kind of non-denominational white-bread deism: it encompasses both explicit religiosity in public life the references to God in our founding documents and less well-defined but still-powerful expressions, such as the idea that the 9/11 dead are martyrs.

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • The phrase describes the melding of patriotism with a kind of non-denominational white-bread deism: it encompasses both explicit religiosity in public life the references to God in our founding documents and less well-defined but still-powerful expressions, such as the idea that the 9/11 dead are martyrs.

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • The phrase describes the melding of patriotism with a kind of non-denominational white-bread deism: it encompasses both explicit religiosity in public life the references to God in our founding documents and less well-defined but still-powerful expressions, such as the idea that the 9/11 dead are martyrs.

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

  • The title describes both of the leads, Nick and Annie.

    The Invisible (2007) 2010

  • Additionally, the term describes the direct experience of unwelcome change when an environment transforms around someone, creating a feeling of dispossession when, in fact, the affected individual has remained in one place.

    Climate Crisis of Feelings 2010

  • The term describes the forces of evil that took from the planet first Kennedy, then Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'? 2009

  • The term describes the forces of evil that took from the planet first Kennedy, then Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'? 2009

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