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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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Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Tender, honest and evocatively photographed, this documentary sticks to you like a boutonniere on a lapel.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

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

This galaxy, he evocatively notes, is only slightly younger from our perspective than the total time sharks have existed on Earth—some 300 million years.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2023

Voices from present and past speak here evocatively.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von