characteristic
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It also states that public authorities should "advance equality of opportunity between people who share and people who do not share a relevant protected characteristic".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
In a Wall Street Journal interview that November, founder Ren Zhengfei invited President Trump to come visit and brushed off U.S. sanctions with characteristic bravado.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Scientists believe this unique characteristic could provide entirely new ways to encode, transmit, and process data.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
That single characteristic may be the key to his popularity.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
In other respects the pottery preserved the red slip and the vessel forms characteristic of earlier Austronesian pottery in Indonesia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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