characterize

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The sect is known as the Shaking Quakers, for their combination of a Quakerish faith in the individual spiritual experience and a worship style characterized by a feral sort of dancing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Fume events are typically characterized by a “dirty sock” odor, at least in cases where engine oil leaks into the air supply.

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Memory chips have long been commoditized, and the business has been characterized by dramatic inventory and price cycles.

From Barron's

North Africa was by then the Bible Belt of the late Roman West, characterized by intense Christian devotion and intellectual ferment.

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Hebel characterized Morrison as “very much like a papa bear, a protector” who was very close to Sheina, his only child.

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