characterization
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The company’s disclosures on Sunday contradict Nvidia’s previous characterization of the relationship.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026
Rather than engage in a diplomatic spat, Visit Norway embraced the president’s characterization, promoting restrooms that include the award-winning Stegastein viewpoint toilet overlooking Aurlandsfjord and the triangular Golden Toilet on Senja Island.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Augustin disputed that characterization of the presentations and said he’s provided only factual information about the measure so residents can understand the choices before them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
That characterization paints the picture with too broad a brush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
That characterization describes perfectly the course of the relationship between Strauss and Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
If hearing the arguments of Shapiro, who acts as a producer, in the mouths of supposed twentysomethings doesn’t give the game away, the baffling characterizations in the film do.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The company distanced itself from Carlson and called his characterizations unscientific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
There’s a vocabulary and a shorthand in how characters are depicted in TV series, especially in crime thrillers where the police-procedural aspects are supposed to embellish the characterizations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
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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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