characteristic
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But closed-ends have one unique characteristic: They do not issue new shares to satisfy new purchasers, or redeem shares that are sold.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026
Such abrupt rebounds are often characteristic of markets under stress.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
In the 1940s, many Americans weren’t too fond of the slightly sour taste that’s characteristic of plain yogurt, wrote Allison Aubrey for NPR.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Maybe creative destruction, as the economist Joseph Schumpeter called it, is simply the defining characteristic of capitalism—making the pursuit of moats a lot harder than it sounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The epistemological sloppiness that, in Western culture, characterizes references to experience before the Scientific Revolution is not a necessary characteristic of pre-scientific societies.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing characteristic
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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