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English word

describe

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /dɪˈskraɪb/US /dɪˈskraɪb/
verb

to say what somebody/something is like

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The hands were those of our speaker, Jeff Bezos, a self-described nerdy commuter commu computer science and electrical engineering major who graduated from Princeton with highest honors in 1986.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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