characterized

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The researchers characterized the device as needed to help develop marine resources.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

He characterized AI as a “seminal shift” and one of the fastest-moving technologies in history.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

He characterized the historic site as “rusting and rotting.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Recessions are generally characterized, in the first instance, by the substitution of a sudden, sharp, upward movement in the unemployment rate for a gradual downward or sideways movement.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

With the instinct for ordeal that characterized the age, scientists set off for more than a hundred locations around the globe–to Siberia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, and the woods of Wisconsin, among many others.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson