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characters

[kar-ik-terz] / ˈkær ɪk tərz /






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It includes doing a better job showcasing the sport’s drama and characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Baron Cohen, 54, is known for his self-created comic characters including infamous spoof wannabe gangster Ali G, Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and Austrian fashionista Brüno Gehard.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The first four chapters set the story up like a novel, building the characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

It’s a well-oiled machine, moving at a perfectly amiable pace thanks to Madison and White’s lead performances alongside a host of quippy, Sorkin-style side characters.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word “Slattern,” and bound it like a phylactery round Helen’s large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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