characteristic
Example Sentences
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The power and the danger of frontier models come from the same characteristic: These systems do things their builders don’t fully understand.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
Beyond this region, stars become older again with increasing distance, forming the characteristic U-shaped age profile.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
Many of the banks we bought had that characteristic, but the CEOs failed to realize they were underearning.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
“Now standing erect without external support, his closed hands fixed firmly to his thighs, the kouros expresses the confident vitality that is characteristic of the best of his brothers.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing characteristic
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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