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"This experiment develops techniques to better characterize the fidelity of hard quantum states under noise, increasing confidence that the quantum computer is solving a computationally hard problem."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Then—with humanlike fluency I might characterize as confidence—FSD put its invisible foot down, moving over two lanes to anticipate merging traffic far ahead and put us in the fast lane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

“I wouldn’t characterize myself as optimistic,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

A simpler derivatives contract could hurt some of CME’s and Cboe’s most popular products, which critics characterize as monopolies.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

“A blood type that you would characterize as rare?”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

“We do not believe the inquiry accurately characterizes our actions or practices and will cooperate through the appropriate process.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The disarray and unsettledness that characterizes the end of this trial is unsatisfying but also in line with the whole of the Clancy saga.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Griffin’s countersuit claims that the classmate’s lawsuit characterizes her as “a fraud and a thief.”

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

In 1963 he wrote in one of Rand’s newsletters, “At the bottom of the endless pile of paper work which characterizes all regulation lies a gun.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

In their fascinating book Judgement under Uncertainty, Tversky and Kahneman describe a different variety of the seemingly irrational innumeracy that characterizes many of our most critical decisions.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The current status of the economy could be best described as a big divergence characterized by domestic weakness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Some subsequent accounts have characterized it as a condemnation, rebuke or repudiation of the symposium. A careful read of my statement will fail to find any of those words,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

On Dec. 11, 2025, Trump issued what he characterized as a pardon of Peters.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The company later characterized the departure as a “business decision,” but declined to explain what business consideration prompted such a sudden termination.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

As Franklin and many others noted, Indian life—not only among the Haudenosaunee, but throughout the Northeast—was characterized by a level of personal autonomy unknown in Europe.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

What this means for the crucial holiday shopping season is a potential period of restraint, she said, characterizing the period as “a very cautious, very conservative growth opportunity versus previous years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

I don’t think it was as simple as Reddington, perhaps, is characterizing the note, or as the media is characterizing the note.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

"CMDR's laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation for quantifying and characterizing microplastics in environmental samples," explains Lynch.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

So do the bubblelike conditions that seem to be characterizing the U.S. stock market and private credit market.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

I voiced these thoughts to Hugh, who denounced both me and the crowd, unironically characterizing the atmosphere as "carnivallike."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris