characterize
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Design studies for Olana included in the exhibit provide further details about the ornamental stencils that characterize Church’s home both inside and out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"This experiment develops techniques to better characterize the fidelity of hard quantum states under noise, increasing confidence that the quantum computer is solving a computationally hard problem."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
A simpler derivatives contract could hurt some of CME’s and Cboe’s most popular products, which critics characterize as monopolies.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 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
And each time, he displayed the same level of grief, what people who heard him would characterize as inescapable sincerity.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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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
Justice Alito characterizes Mr. Calabresi as “quite a brilliant originalist scholar” and clearly regards his analysis as an honest mistake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Griffin’s countersuit claims that the classmate’s lawsuit characterizes her as “a fraud and a thief.”
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 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
Adverse implies hostility or opposition, and usually characterizes a thing or an action.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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It characterized the injury as one arising from “offense, disagreement, or distaste” and reasoned that allowing such an interest to establish standing could permit citizens to challenge virtually any government project that offends their sensibilities.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Sag characterized Cook’s ongoing involvement as “on-the-job training” for Ternus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Michael Sanft, Davis's defense attorney, characterized his client's confessions as fiction and lies partly designed to promote his book.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He offered no similar ambiguity about what he believed should happen when a journalist characterized that record differently.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 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
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"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
“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
In the days that followed, Banks and fellow executive producer Ken Mok turned it into a storyline, characterizing what happened not as a violation but as Sullivan’s failing.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 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
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