characteristic

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Eventually Goad made a decision: She scrapped the characteristic purple in favor of a delicate lilac named “Lilith,” picked by a committee of girls.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

In characteristic Ionesco fashion, the work proceeds through intensification, a steady ratcheting up of the situation, rather than through traditional narrative development.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Techniques such as “receiver operating characteristic curve analysis” examine how changing the threshold for an alert alters the balance between correctly identifying real events and mistakenly flagging harmless ones.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Beyond this region, stars become older again with increasing distance, forming the characteristic U-shaped age profile.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

I search her face for a sign of what she has lost—her father, an Abnegation leader, didn’t survive the attack—but I see only the placid determination characteristic of my old faction.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth