characterize
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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
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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
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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
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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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