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evocatively

American  
[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

Unlike a few of the seedling apples we’d tasted—some of which foragers evocatively call “spitters”—this was fruit I’d cut up to serve with thick slices of cheddar.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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