characterize
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City officials have sought to characterize the measure as closing a loophole that gave travel companies like Hotels.com and Trivago a discounted bed tax rate.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
There is no other way to characterize that other than as a disappointment.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
"We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
But without the proper documentation or court-ordered child support, the Internal Revenue Service could characterize this money as a gift or settlement.
From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026
These are the dual strengths, the essential opposites, that characterize human thinking.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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