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characterize

[kar-ik-tuh-rahyz] / ˈkær ɪk təˌraɪz /


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Carney said this week he wasn't concerned about associate-member status, or "specific names or nomenclature" used to characterize the new alliance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 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

Connecting these biological patterns with patients' experiences could help researchers develop more precise ways to identify and characterize depression.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Proponents of the measure characterize the effort as procedural: It will firm up timelines, but projects still will be reviewed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

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 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

“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

There is none of the humor or wordplay or cleverness that characterizes Sesame Street.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

That marks a sharp contrast with the open generational warfare that characterized the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

On Sunday, Stevens characterized her flip-flop as “a personal and private decision” in the middle of a press conference talking about it, which made the whole thing look more petty than principled.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

A highly contagious viral disease, measles is characterized by a distinct rash.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

By contrast, the working-class and poor children were characterized by “an emerging sense of distance, distrust, and constraint.”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

To start by characterizing her that way is to turn the burden of proof on its head.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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 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


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