characterize

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City officials have sought to characterize the measure as closing a loophole that gave travel companies like Hotels.com and Trivago a discounted bed tax rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

"We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

But without the proper documentation or court-ordered child support, the Internal Revenue Service could characterize this money as a gift or settlement.

From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026

Since the Fed began issuing policy statements in 1994, such dissents over how to characterize the likely path of policy—as opposed to actual rate changes—have been rare.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.”

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond