characteristic

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“He achieved these organic shapes, which are very characteristic of his architecture, but using very strict rules,” said Mauricio Cortés, an architect who has been working on completing the church for the past two decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The Y chromosomes in the Belgian remains were all characteristic of hunter-gatherers, but three-quarters of the mitochondrial DNA lineages had come from Neolithic farmers living further south.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

The algae provide coral's characteristic colours, and their departure leaves behind a ghostly white structure that is gradually starving.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Techniques such as “receiver operating characteristic curve analysis” examine how changing the threshold for an alert alters the balance between correctly identifying real events and mistakenly flagging harmless ones.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

As time went on he lost weight, suffered extreme fatigue, and experienced a peculiar muscular weakness, a characteristic effect of malathion.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson