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“We do not expect to get to any kind of agreement. I would characterize this as the entry point,” one senior Trump administration official said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

“All in, we continue to characterize the earnings set up as solid, implying that lower valuations on recent pullbacks should be viewed opportunistically for now,” the team wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

I like to characterize the Cybertruck as an “exotic” vehicle—a fever-dream hypertruck meant to appeal to crypto bros who had played a lot of Halo and measure success in terms of Lamborghinis in the driveway.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

I might have helped with some SAT prep along the way, but I’d hardly characterize my role as a taskmaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

And each time, he displayed the same level of grief, what people who heard him would characterize as inescapable sincerity.

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

In Friedreich ataxia, a genetic defect leads to reduced production of this essential protein, contributing to the progressive damage that characterizes the disease.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

He predicts a situation going forward he characterizes as “Schrödinger’s Strait,” whereby the chokepoint in the Iranian gulf is theoretically open but in practice, still closed.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

But diversity still characterizes local Jomon diets and even individual Jomon meals.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Union Pacific said it doesn't retaliate against customers and characterized the chief executive’s remarks as an offhand comment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Overall employment trends point to “a broadly softening labor market, rather than one characterized by AI-driven job losses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Researchers had yet to isolate stable organic oxoboranes, molecules characterized by a triple bond between boron and oxygen.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

On the other side of macroeconomic spectrum, economists have characterized the US labor market by the phrase "low-hire, low-fire" -- stable, but with little chance for growth or movement for most people.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Those difficulties of terrain, combined with the state of intermittent warfare that characterized relations between New Guinea bands or villages, account for traditional New Guinea’s linguistic, cultural, and political fragmentation.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

“It was a musical that was revolutionary and changed the game,” he said, characterizing the show as “a rock concert where a play breaks out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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