characterize
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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
Carney said this week he wasn't concerned about associate-member status, or "specific names or nomenclature" used to characterize the new alliance.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
According to People, Love and his wife, Jacquelyne Piesen, arranged for 6 acres surrounding their Incline Village property to be protected from development, helping preserve the towering pine trees and wildlife that characterize the area.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
This relatively cooler planet helps us better characterize and nail down this transition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Royal Brougham thought long and hard about how to characterize what Bobby Moch had pulled off.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
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
The disarray and unsettledness that characterizes the end of this trial is unsatisfying but also in line with the whole of the Clancy saga.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
The epistemological sloppiness that, in Western culture, characterizes references to experience before the Scientific Revolution is not a necessary characteristic of pre-scientific societies.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The buy-it-all investing boom that characterized the early years of the bull market for tech stocks is petering out, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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
On Sunday, Stevens characterized her flip-flop as “a personal and private decision” in the middle of a press conference talking about it, which made the whole thing look more petty than principled.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Spotting the vases, he chipped the encrustation off one of them and was convinced what he was holding in his hands was celadon, an extremely valuable East Asian stoneware characterized by its beautiful blue-green glaze.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
I voiced these thoughts to Hugh, who denounced both me and the crowd, unironically characterizing the atmosphere as "carnivallike."
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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