characteristic
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The algae provide coral's characteristic colours, and their departure leaves behind a ghostly white structure that is gradually starving.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
In characteristic Ionesco fashion, the work proceeds through intensification, a steady ratcheting up of the situation, rather than through traditional narrative development.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
While many of the tracks here reveal the musician’s characteristic intensity, it is a happier and more joyful sound.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Beyond this region, stars become older again with increasing distance, forming the characteristic U-shaped age profile.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
All these types of diseases, characteristic of small isolated populations, must be the oldest diseases of humanity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing characteristic
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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