characteristics

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When companies face pressure to increase shareholder returns, these characteristics make spending on research an obvious place to trim or redirect — even if no one says it explicitly.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Their results show that if life spreads and alters planets, it can create measurable statistical links between where planets are located and what characteristics they display.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Setting up the business in 1967 he sought to design and build amplifiers with key "tonal" characteristics that were unheard of at the time, namely distortion.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The cast is very good and the dialogue good enough, but because few of these characters are developed beyond a handful of identifying characteristics, it’s a generally cold, dispassionate watch.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

If the gene was the central currency of biological information, then major characteristics of the living world—not just heredity—should be explicable in terms of genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee