characteristics

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Research shows we are more likely to form connections with people who have similar characteristics and backgrounds to ourselves—a tendency called homophily—and that race is its strongest predictor in America.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

The results support growing interest in precision medicine, an approach that aims to tailor prevention and treatment strategies to individual characteristics, including sex.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

The crisis facing those residents is just the latest in a long line of indignities they have suffered thanks to several unique characteristics of their energy market, Hughes says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Ultimately you have to let the plant grow, confirm the characteristics – flower shape and size, colour, the number of stems, resistance to disease and so on – and then make another selection.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

It had obvious defects: it could not, for example, explain the inheritance of characteristics from the father; in 1752 Maupertuis showed that polydactylism could be inherited in the male as well as the female line.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton