characterize
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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
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
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
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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
A Brazilian federal police commissioner, Luciano Flores, told AFP that CV and PCC did "not fall within the scope of the law that characterizes terrorist organizations."
From Barron's ● May 29, 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
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Orange County authorities this week touted the success of a novel effort to get e-bikes — which they have characterized as a dangerous and deadly weapon — off the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Economists broadly expect the data to show a continuation of the export-driven strength and weak domestic demand that have characterized China’s economy this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
He endured the “whirl of noise and motion,” as Dickens characterized London in his then-current serial, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, which everyone was gobbling up in Bentley’s Miscellany, a literary magazine.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
One longtime friend was surprised by reports characterizing Rana as a gauche underperformer, having known Rana as an outgoing person with a dry, quick sense of humor and an intense work ethic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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
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