be characteristic of
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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.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024
“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.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022
This idea, which would suggest that Homo naledi was capable of ritual behaviour, met with controversy because such practices are thought by some to be characteristic of human modernity.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2017
A geological division into older highlands and younger lowland plains seems to be characteristic of all the terrestrial planets except Mercury.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
If it be characteristic of anyone, however, its use is characteristic of the author of the third Gospel and the Acts, and in no case is it peculiarly associated with James.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
