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Rubio offered a more cautious assessment of the diplomatic contacts, saying Tuesday’s conversation had been with mediators and that he didn’t want to characterize it as moving in either direction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Hartig told lawmakers that while the White House report is under review, "we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum."

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Working together, the two proteins produced the exceptionally long telomeres that characterize melanoma tumors.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

Similarly restricted uses characterize early Egyptian, Mesoamerican, and Chinese writing.

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

“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

It characterizes the lower court as engaging in “a string of speculation” about what the federal agencies might do when, and how that speculation illustrates that the state’s claims aren’t ripe for review.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 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

The best place to put a word like finally—that is, an adverb, a word that characterizes a verb—is directly before the action being described: in this case, go or gone.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Far from a predatory pattern of a serial abuser, Cohen characterized the encounters as ham-fisted and occasionally tone deaf bumblings of a “creep” with limited social skills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Researchers say clinical trials will need to use carefully characterized and standardized mulberry preparations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

One thing we’re interested in is how nonpolitical ideas are characterized in political spaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

In near-daily appearances, he has vowed to press ahead, characterizing the luxury development as an economic boon for one of Europe’s poorest countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Minutes after the judgment was announced, the entrepreneur's lawyers informed AFP that their client will appeal the decision, characterizing it as a "setback."

From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026

The testimony the experts would provide would also be very direct in characterizing his disabilities and illness.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson