presentative

adjective

pre·sen·ta·tive pri-ˈzen-tə-tiv

ˈpre-zᵊn-ˌtā-

: known, knowing, or capable of being known directly rather than through cogitation

Examples of presentative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In one remarkable natural experiment, researchers set out to assess changes in aggression over an eight-year period among a presentative sample of children living in poverty (one quarter of them being Native American). —

Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2021

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