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be characteristic of



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This too may be characteristic of a Dame, although pairing that with her unstuffy humor and refreshingly proletarian quick wit engendered in us a familiarity.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

“Writers like Dávila incorporated the interior world, the world of the nightmare, the world of madness. And that interior psychology can be characteristic of women’s writing,” Alemany Bay said.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022

This idea, which would suggest that Homo naledi was capable of ritual behaviour, met with controversy because such practices are thought by some to be characteristic of human modernity.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2017

A geological division into older highlands and younger lowland plains seems to be characteristic of all the terrestrial planets except Mercury.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

There are other things which a scout ought to know and which should be characteristic of him, if he is going to be the kind of scout for which the Boy Scouts of America stand.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America




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