character
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So I was like, “Well, we need to counteract this. We’ll have a female character who’s posh.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
"It would've been out of character if they had."
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
The role was Scott's first, but he initially sent his audition tape for a smaller part, a character called "Lad One".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Schwarzenegger’s character, a Los Angeles police detective, goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, falls for fellow teacher Joyce and becomes a father figure to Dominic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
I parked my character in a monster-free space and put my controller on my bed.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Wind, a financial-data provider, identified 70 mainland-listed stocks with names containing one of three identically pronounced characters meaning sheep, ocean or sun.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
So wild are the characters and harrowing the dramas, however, that readers will relish “Embargo” even without an overarching argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
“I feel less like I’m sympathizing with the characters being terrified and helpless, and it almost sounds like we are on the creature’s side,” Cain laughed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Burgess’s characters and mode of storytelling come from a preironic age and may seem, by current stylistic standards, almost embarrassingly sugary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Cartoon characters were popular—Garfield was in a lot of gardens with his arms whirling like crazy in the breeze.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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