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evocatively

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[i-vahk-uh-tiv-lee] / ɪˈvɑk ə tɪv li /

adverb

  1. in a way that readily evokes scenes, images, and feelings for the reader, listener, or viewer; strikingly, suggestively.


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An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Its subjects are a couple — ceramicist Slava Leontyev and Anya Stasenko, who evocatively paints his palm-size creatures — and another painter, their friend Andrey Stefanov.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

The scenes that open this ravishing drama by Wang Xiaoshuai feel like pieces of a cryptic puzzle, gesturing evocatively at a whole that remains out of view.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Ms Lahiri has written evocatively of how the two have been in a "long-distance relationship while being in the same city", meeting across a glass partition in prison and talking on the intercom.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024

Voices from present and past speak here evocatively.

From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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