Running an Update Subquery

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Is it possible to run an update statement with a subquery? What is the syntax?

Say you have emp and dept tables.

update emp set emp.depdesc = select dept.description from dept where emp.deptno
= dept.deptno

In other words I want to put values in preexisting records based on another
table. If dept has a description, then I want emp to have fname, lname, deptno,
deptdescription.

Is that possible?
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