characteristics
Example Sentences
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The 18th-century French noble was the guy who got evolution wrong, believing that characteristics acquired during an organism’s life could be passed down directly to its descendants.
It added that when a cocker spaniel was bred with a poodle, those characteristics - combined with them having smaller crossbred offspring - could result in more problem behaviour.
From BBC
Cooler heads attribute surging withdrawals to the way even sophisticated individual investors often view private-markets investment vehicles such as BDCs and interval funds, which highlight the periodic redemption opportunities that give them semiliquid characteristics.
Instead of starting with a broad index and sorting stocks into two groups, this fund targets stocks that show value characteristics relative to industry peers.
From Barron's
"This suggests there are some requirements from the immune system in order for this drug to work, and we're in the process of dissecting these characteristics in more granular detail in these larger studies."
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
