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In addition, Texans recognize the flaws that led Hinojosa to characterize the criminal justice system as “broken”; 59 percent say they believe that Texas has executed “the wrongly convicted.”

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

According to People, Love and his wife, Jacquelyne Piesen, arranged for 6 acres surrounding their Incline Village property to be protected from development, helping preserve the towering pine trees and wildlife that characterize the area.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

I might have helped with some SAT prep along the way, but I’d hardly characterize my role as a taskmaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“There’s a pathology going on here that is so out of keeping with the dignity that ought to characterize the taking of a life as a result of a legal process,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

“These children are horrible,” Tolstoy shortly observed, thus displaying the deep insight into human nature that would characterize his later work.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Anne Thompson characterizes the race as “A Hollywood blockbuster … against a festival favorite.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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

Adverse implies hostility or opposition, and usually characterizes a thing or an action.

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

Such behavior is known as an effusive eruption, a type of volcanic activity characterized primarily by flowing lava.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Overall employment trends point to “a broadly softening labor market, rather than one characterized by AI-driven job losses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Speaking with the author, Mr. Glassman bluntly characterized his leadership style: “I’m driving the bus. I want you to sit in the back and tell me who I ran over—not tell me where to drive.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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

This 'dining hall' where I now sit, however, is a modem annexe built to adjoin the main building - a long, flat room characterized by rows of large windows on either side.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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’m quite frankly troubled by what I see as a brazen disregard,” Commissioner Ray Jackson remarked about Levy during a public hearing, characterizing the situation as “a direct affront to the people of California.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

The Peruvian government’s clinics and doctors, who had never warmed to Socios en Salud, began characterizing the organization as a group of interfering outsiders.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French