characteristic
Example Sentences
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If his defining characteristic weren’t competence, Piggy could easily insert him into a cover of “Manchild” instead of duetting with Carpenter in a performance of “Islands in the Stream.”
From Salon
The Online Safety Act requires platforms like Instagram to apply terms of service consistently, including where content mocks people based on protected characteristics, like their disability.
From BBC
If people wondered why the well-educated dead sounded unschooled, Leah explained that spirits often took on the human characteristics of the medium.
From Literature
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This is an immutable characteristic of large language models.
These filaments then form a scaffold that determines the condensate's physical characteristics.
From Science Daily
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