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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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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

The world of low-level gamblers is evocatively drawn and Anderson displays an unexpected tenderness to those who inhabit it.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 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 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von