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“We do not expect to get to any kind of agreement. I would characterize this as the entry point,” one senior Trump administration official said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

I like to characterize the Cybertruck as an “exotic” vehicle—a fever-dream hypertruck meant to appeal to crypto bros who had played a lot of Halo and measure success in terms of Lamborghinis in the driveway.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Top officials at the Federal Reserve characterize the labor market as stable if stagnant.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Such missions could help scientists study smaller planets that current observations cannot yet detect or characterize.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Since there had never been a republican chief executive, there was no readily available vocabulary to characterize such a creature, except the verbal traditions that had built up around European courts and kings.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In Friedreich ataxia, a genetic defect leads to reduced production of this essential protein, contributing to the progressive damage that characterizes the disease.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

He predicts a situation going forward he characterizes as “Schrödinger’s Strait,” whereby the chokepoint in the Iranian gulf is theoretically open but in practice, still closed.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

“The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’s life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” the spokesperson said via email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

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 buy-it-all investing boom that characterized the early years of the bull market for tech stocks is petering out, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Researchers had yet to isolate stable organic oxoboranes, molecules characterized by a triple bond between boron and oxygen.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

On the other side of macroeconomic spectrum, economists have characterized the US labor market by the phrase "low-hire, low-fire" -- stable, but with little chance for growth or movement for most people.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Almost a century had passed by the time Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965, a period characterized by subjugation and violence by the white majority.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

“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

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