character
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“Out of all these people, this one character just happens to pick them out in the dark,” said the 35-year-old father from Rochester, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Cole also played the aunt of Martin Clunes's titular character in the ITV medical drama Doc Martin.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Ellroy went with that story, as did John Gregory Dunne before him in his 1977 novel “True Confessions,” which features a character inspired by Short.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
A listing, they say, will destroy its character by making it accountable to outside shareholders whose focus would be financial returns.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The thought of being turned into a fictional character amused her.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The steady support these characters give to one another is the secret to the success of Lion’s hagwon, which cultivates a caring, low-pressure educational environment as opposed to the usual factory-line exam drilling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We're giving these guys a platform to try out new characters, to try out new moves, to see what works, and get them in front of an audience," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Starbucks items featuring the “Peanuts” characters — known for animated classics like “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” — were intended to promote the return of Starbucks’s pumpkin-spice latte.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Many people in line in Marina del Rey chatted about their favorite Sanrio characters and exchanged childhood memories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
I should be scared or apprehensive—I mean, this is what Autumn and I hate about the main characters in horror movies.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing character
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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