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characterize

[kar-ik-tuh-rahyz] / ˈkær ɪk təˌraɪz /


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Valthos builds AI systems to detect, characterize and mitigate emerging biological threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"This experiment develops techniques to better characterize the fidelity of hard quantum states under noise, increasing confidence that the quantum computer is solving a computationally hard problem."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Working together, the two proteins produced the exceptionally long telomeres that characterize melanoma tumors.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

An unapologetic devotee of the outrageous antics and high melodrama which characterize the genre, Oliver said, “Write me a role and I will be on your set so fast it will make your head swim.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

“A blood type that you would characterize as rare?”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

It characterizes the lower court as engaging in “a string of speculation” about what the federal agencies might do when, and how that speculation illustrates that the state’s claims aren’t ripe for review.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Griffin’s countersuit claims that the classmate’s lawsuit characterizes her as “a fraud and a thief.”

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Survival mode” is how Neale Wetherall, 36, a veteran living in the southeast with two young kids, characterizes his family dynamic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Anadol Studio’s active creative partnership with Google deepened after Refik’s own more recent stays in the Sacred Village, taking advantage of what Neven characterizes as “the ethnobotanical knowledge that Indigenous tribes still possess.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The total number of bits that characterizes an hour-long television program is about 1012.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Shanmugam characterized Boulder’s case as “unprecedented,” and argued that the Constitution does not permit individual localities to “use state law to regulate global conduct.”

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Researchers say clinical trials will need to use carefully characterized and standardized mulberry preparations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Some subsequent accounts have characterized it as a condemnation, rebuke or repudiation of the symposium. A careful read of my statement will fail to find any of those words,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

By contrast, the working-class and poor children were characterized by “an emerging sense of distance, distrust, and constraint.”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

I don’t think it was as simple as Reddington, perhaps, is characterizing the note, or as the media is characterizing the note.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

"CMDR's laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation for quantifying and characterizing microplastics in environmental samples," explains Lynch.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

So do the bubblelike conditions that seem to be characterizing the U.S. stock market and private credit market.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

In near-daily appearances, he has vowed to press ahead, characterizing the luxury development as an economic boon for one of Europe’s poorest countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The Peruvian government’s clinics and doctors, who had never warmed to Socios en Salud, began characterizing the organization as a group of interfering outsiders.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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