characterization
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Life Surge has strongly disputed the characterization of its business as predatory.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Guilfoyle’s lawyer disputed the characterization of the exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Taken together, the available data resist a simple characterization of younger investors as either overly cautious or speculative.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Our study highlights the critical role of in situ characterization in identifying dynamic active structures under reaction conditions," said Prof. Liu.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Not only did he miss the opportunity to disown the offensive characterization of Burr; he raised the rhetorical stakes with his dismissive tone and gratuitously defiant counterthreat.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
But we should also realize that the engineers who are so ready to offer grim characterizations of what they’ve created are much less willing to make any substantial process overhauls.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
I feel as though I’ve spent much of my summer taking shots at “Obsession” gussying up its thin characterizations to fool people into thinking it’s anything more than your standard horror sludge.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
And in both cases, these secondary characterizations are as insightfully wrought as the actors’ main roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Gussalli Beretta, the 64-year-old 15th-generation descendant of company founder Maestro Bartolomeo Beretta, calls Ruger’s characterizations of his takeover aspirations “fake news.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
This was the decision that caused Hamilton to repeat his earlier characterizations of Burr as the unprincipled American Catiline, which in turn generated the newspaper reports containing the offensive word “despicable.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing characterization
Vocabulary to Describe Literary Devices
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Reading: Literature - Fiction - Introductory
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Literary Terms, Grade 7, Unit 1
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