characterize
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There is no other way to characterize that other than as a disappointment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
"We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 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
If “Mija No Te Asustes” is an album about this confident boss man calling the shots, how would you characterize “Afterafter”?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
These are the dual strengths, the essential opposites, that characterize human thinking.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Ms. Fernando, an environmental historian at Stony Brook University, writes about the encounters between what she characterizes as colonial and precolonial forms of knowledge during this period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Griffin’s countersuit claims that the classmate’s lawsuit characterizes her as “a fraud and a thief.”
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
The shares have since wavered, falling 16% on Monday alone, and options sellers are helping to create a two-way flow, which characterizes healthy markets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
If one thing characterizes the past few years of major app releases, it’s “features users didn’t ask for.”
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 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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Binface has characterized his Clacton campaign as “people vs. the establishment,” a framing that is no doubt irksome to Farage, who views himself decidedly as the people, not the establishment.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
El Niño is a climate pattern characterized by warmer ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, coupled with changing atmospheric conditions, in which the typical east-to-west trade winds weaken or even reverse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
In this tale of an imprisoned queen, her supposedly dead husband, and her struggle against a usurper, brilliantly characterized arias succeed each other like jewels, ratcheting up the emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
They flagged Hilton’s alarming livestream within minutes, closed other live streams within 90 seconds and banned the account, the spokesperson said, but its removal was delayed by what was characterized as “a moderator error.”
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
As much as any other profession, aeronautical engineering embodied the restlessness and technological progress that characterized what was already being dubbed the American Century.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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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
The shift came further into view on Friday, when three Fed bank presidents released statements explaining why they had objected on Wednesday to language characterizing the central bank’s next likely move as a cut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Minutes after the judgment was announced, the entrepreneur's lawyers informed AFP that their client will appeal the decision, characterizing it as a "setback."
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
The back-and-forth became increasingly heated as Kennedy also peppered Noem for characterizing Good and Pretti as domestic terrorists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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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