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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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Such questions are central to this elusive marvel, which invites the viewer to complete the drawing that Schilinski evocatively sketches.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

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

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

Not a few prehistoric finds have been attributed, evocatively if not accurately, to the work of ancient cannibals.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Voices from present and past speak here evocatively.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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