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My colleague Jessica Winter does have a helpful hint, though, for descrying Trump’s fanciest, sneakiest adviser:

From Slate • May 2, 2017

Say you were descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through fields of ether and fleecy clouds he journeyed many a mile, descrying, like Sancho Panza on his clavileno, the earth far distant below him, and no bigger than a nut-shell.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick

I left the wood, still bearing her in my arms, and re-entered the road, from the desire of descrying, as soon as possible, the coming passenger.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

She wished now she had aroused her father immediately on first descrying the man.

From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Marlowe, Amy Bell