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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descry
Verb
  • Police found a firearm in the vehicle, the release says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The child was found by her mother three hours later, with internal vehicle temperatures having reached over 108 degrees.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Mariah had noticed the young soldier standing alone while everyone else celebrated with loved ones.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Now is not the time for pastors to wilt or keep our heads down, hoping against hope that we won’t be noticed.
    Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • My history and the lessons learned My record of immediately reversing transfers is historically bad, with this season no exception!
    Holly Shand, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One cornerstone is Bayesian optimization, an active-learning strategy that greedily picks the next best experiment.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The suppression of Black voters well into the twentieth century was only ended (for the most part) with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), after a long and dangerous fight that saw multiple incidents of deadly violence against those advocating for equal access to the ballot.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But the biggest surprise was seeing how ineffective Liverpool’s forwards were.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Authorities then discovered De Silva suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Bishop discovered that former Rangers defender Connor Goldson, now playing in Cyprus, had a similar problem earlier in his career.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Perry and Trudeau first sparked romance rumors over the summer, when they were spotted on a date in Montreal, Canada.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Shawn Mayes, a longtime Terpsichore dancer, remembered when MTV did a bar crawl and spotted the dancers and put it on camera.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In addition to locating victims’ remains, the on-site work involved removing and disposing of explosives that didn’t detonate in the blast.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Across town, Mark Fontana leaned over a slab of granite in a monument manufacturing shop located right next to the Italian cemetery, full of headstones in various stages, giant stone cutting machines, diamond-grinders and a room for sandblasting headstones.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Incidentally, an additionally license for makeup is also in the pipeline, with Barbieri eyeing the product launch in June 2026.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Many teams are reportedly eyeing blockbuster moves before this year's NFL trade deadline, including the Cleveland Browns.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Descry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descry. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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