Describe each of them vs them

The two phrases are not directly comparable as they serve different purposes. "Describe each of them" is a complete sentence instructing someone to provide a description for each item, while "them" is a pronoun that refers to a previously mentioned group of things or people.

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Describe each of them

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to instruct someone to provide descriptions for each item or person in a group.

This phrase is used when you want someone to provide individual descriptions for each item or person in a group. It is clear and specific in its instruction.

Examples:

Please describe each of the paintings in detail.
Can you describe each of the candidates' qualifications for the job?

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It describes each of the college staff...
The following sections briefly describes each menubar option.
The following sections briefly describe each menubar option.
So even though I can describe each step in the process mathematically,
In the future, several new Test Methods, and/or guidance document(s), may be developed to describe each endpoint separately and in more detail.
These metadata parameters shall describe each operation. It shall at least provide the following:
Electric machines (describe each type of electric machine separately)
The Communication describes how each of these actions has been implemented.
You go around the table... ...and you pick one word that best describes each in-law... ...then they pick one word that describes you.
Before HTML pages are generated, you need to specify a bit of information, split over the three pages Content, Layout and Destination. The following section describes each page in detail.
Electric motor (describe each type of electric motor separately)
This dialog lets you manage all defined plugins and lets you add new ones. We will describe each & GUI; element in here:
It shall describe each operation, including as a minimum a description of the data exchanged and the network address, and shall list the following:
The presentation of the findings on dumping for each of the countries concerned therefore only describes matters specific to each exporting country.
The presentation of the findings on dumping for each of the countries concerned therefore only describes matters specific to each exporting country.
Identify and describe for each farm natural or artificial barriers and justify its capability to prevent that aquatic animals enter each farm in a compartment from the surrounding watercourses.
Identify and describe for each farm the water supply (13)
In its letter of 7 August 2001, the Commission department concerned invited the Italian authorities to describe in detail how each of these points had been complied with for each type of recipient.
Identify and describe for each farm the water supply [15]
Identify and describe for each farm the protection against flooding and infiltration of water form the surrounding

them

This phrase is correct as a pronoun that refers to a group of things or people that have been previously mentioned or are understood from context.

Use "them" when you want to refer back to a group of items or people that have already been introduced in the conversation or are clear from the context.

Examples:

I bought some books. Have you read them?
The students finished their projects. I graded them yesterday.

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Drowned them, put them in pressure chambers...
You collected them and fixed them.
We'll give them more money, take them out to eat.
I told them we'd be finished without them.
They cut them out and we still found them.
You keep them off the hood by teaching them baseball.
And seeing them arrive at last, as if heaven had given them wings.
I told them we don't want them on our property.
He drives them like slaves without even giving them decent food.
We promised them that we would lead them out of their economic isolation.
Carved them up and wrapped them in Lannister cloaks.
Prisons recruiting them Police be shooting them
The farmer who hand rears lambs loves them and sends them to slaughter.
Christians leave them laying around, Jews got to get them buried.
Hearing them means really involving them and not only consulting them.
Arrest them, hold them for 48 hours and then release them.
We must follow them so we can chase them down and slaughter them.
Arrest them, investigate them, give them due process.
We are content with explaining them to them rather then consulting them.
Then we can either catch them and eat them as whole eels or use them to replenish the stocks.

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