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characterize

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


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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

"The next step is to characterize abnormal functional and structural brain states along these pathways to build more detailed models for setting patient-specific stimulation parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and pulse width, for precision medicine."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The book’s title is a poetic reference to the crescent-shaped red blood cells that characterize the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Hartig told lawmakers that while the White House report is under review, "we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum."

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Royal Brougham thought long and hard about how to characterize what Bobby Moch had pulled off.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Ms. Rowland had navigated a number of successful career pivots—from elementary-school teacher to news anchor to editor of children’s textbooks—which Ms. FitzSimons characterizes as “a series of wild swings that somehow worked out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

But the risk designation automatically changed to “high” when county officials made what the union characterizes as subjective conclusions about the extent of the crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 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

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless’s beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn’t a challenge at all.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Tetracyclic triterpenoids are plant chemicals characterized by a structure containing four interconnected rings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ms. James repeatedly characterized the AG office’s approach—or lack thereof—as guided by “compassion towards individuals who are struggling with mental illness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

But I wouldn’t have characterized it as overzealous.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

In near-daily appearances, he has vowed to press ahead, characterizing the luxury development as an economic boon for one of Europe’s poorest countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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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