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be characteristic of

verb as in appertain

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This too may be characteristic of a Dame, although pairing that with her unstuffy humor and refreshingly proletarian quick wit engendered in us a familiarity.

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"Equivalent behaviors in humans might include high levels of introversion, social anxiety and having an avoidant personality, all known to be characteristic of posttrauma," says Dr. Juan Pablo Lopez, a former postdoctoral fellow in Chen's joint laboratory at Weizmann and the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, and today head of a research group in the Department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

At 75, Mrs. Lotz told The Washington Times the next transition in her life would be on her mind because “I believe our world events and the things that are happening are falling in line with the signs Jesus gave that would be characteristic of the very last generation. I believe that’s my generation.”

And the slower melt rate outside of them is not much consolation, considering that this slow rate may not be characteristic of the faster-changing part of Thwaites, and at any rate does not change the fact that the glacier is losing ice and retreating.

“Writers like Dávila incorporated the interior world, the world of the nightmare, the world of madness. And that interior psychology can be characteristic of women’s writing,” Alemany Bay said.

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