character
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Hemingway famously described a character going bankrupt “gradually, then suddenly.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Constable KC said George had the ability to be friendly and fun, but he had "another troubling side to your character".
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
A defendant representing himself who called his own father as a character witness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
So when I read it, I was like, “Oh, OK. That’s like those five-page monologues that you don’t get very often to do for one character in one episode.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
They went hunting for people who had gone to college with Capital One’s CEO, Richard Fairbank, and collected character references.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing character
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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