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The Ultra moniker adds the innovative and descriptively named Empty Wash Fill dock, slated for release on May 2nd.

From The Verge • Mar. 15, 2022

In recent decades, Congress has become much more descriptively representative of the United States.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

If you are descriptively correct, this is just broken.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2019

It’s the human scale that most descriptively reveals the truth about the world we’re living in.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

A Bower in the Arsacides Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman