characteristic
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Patients must meet certain criteria for a diagnosis: a combination of clinical symptoms and lesions characteristic of MS that show up on an MRI scan of the brain and spinal cord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Unlike Luca’s freestanding work, however, Andrea’s is a relief—the characteristic white figures against a blue background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The discovery suggests that fractional Fermi seas represent an exotic critical phase of quantum matter, with characteristic patterns of particle correlations that extend beyond existing descriptions of one-dimensional quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
She is beautiful and desirable, but her sexuality isn’t the defining characteristic of her existence — something we don’t see enough when it comes to Latina roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
It was a characteristic speech, and sounded daring, but audacity becomes young people, and Amy’s ambition had a good foundation.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Ability, pace and character are the characteristics they will need in pretty much every outfield position but, from where they are now, achieving that will not happen quickly.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Maximum parsimony identifies evolutionary relationships that require the fewest changes in characteristics, while Bayesian tip-dating also incorporates statistical estimates of evolutionary history and information about when fossils lived.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
British police devised the first criminal identification record of distinctive marks, and, in France, Alphonse Bertillon developed a system of anthropometry, or measuring and cataloging physical characteristics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The scientists also identified important differences in when certain progenitor cell characteristics and behaviors emerge during development.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
“It expresses only the evident fact that...many characteristics of the organism are specified...in unique, separate and thereby independent ways.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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