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The book’s title is a poetic reference to the crescent-shaped red blood cells that characterize the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

An unapologetic devotee of the outrageous antics and high melodrama which characterize the genre, Oliver said, “Write me a role and I will be on your set so fast it will make your head swim.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

There is no other way to characterize that other than as a disappointment.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 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

Other commentators liken the prison label to “the mark of Cain” and characterize the perpetual nature of the sanction as “internal exile.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Survival mode” is how Neale Wetherall, 36, a veteran living in the southeast with two young kids, characterizes his family dynamic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

If one thing characterizes the past few years of major app releases, it’s “features users didn’t ask for.”

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 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

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

Analysts led by Matthew Lofting gently characterized BP’s recent tumultuous history as “chequered” but said the company’s balance sheet improvement means the stock is “no longer a poison pill.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Forecasters say there’s a 75% chance this latest El Niño — a climate pattern characterized by warmer ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific — will be stronger than any other since 1950.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Mutations in genes that specified macroscopic structures, such as limbs and wings, were the easiest to spot and the first to be characterized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

“It was a musical that was revolutionary and changed the game,” he said, characterizing the show as “a rock concert where a play breaks out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

The shift came further into view on Friday, when three Fed bank presidents released statements explaining why they had objected on Wednesday to language characterizing the central bank’s next likely move as a cut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

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

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson