characterizing

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“I understand that the U.S. doesn’t want to be provocative in this region,” said Chen Ming-chi, Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister, characterizing Trump’s strategy as saying less and doing more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 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

One analyst hasn’t been taken in, characterizing it as an effort to ride last year’s Labubu-led trinket craze.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Scott, the South Carolina Republican who leads the Senate Banking Committee, stated that “everyone remains at the table working in good faith,” in a post on X, characterizing the delay as a “brief pause.”

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 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