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DNA sequencing allowed them to examine the genetic identities of microorganisms present in the samples, while the additional tests helped characterize the bacteria and their disease-causing potential.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

“There’s a pathology going on here that is so out of keeping with the dignity that ought to characterize the taking of a life as a result of a legal process,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

This relatively cooler planet helps us better characterize and nail down this transition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Design studies for Olana included in the exhibit provide further details about the ornamental stencils that characterize Church’s home both inside and out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.”

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’s life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” the spokesperson said via email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The disarray and unsettledness that characterizes the end of this trial is unsatisfying but also in line with the whole of the Clancy saga.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Justice Alito characterizes Mr. Calabresi as “quite a brilliant originalist scholar” and clearly regards his analysis as an honest mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Griffin’s countersuit claims that the classmate’s lawsuit characterizes her as “a fraud and a thief.”

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

The best place to put a word like finally—that is, an adverb, a word that characterizes a verb—is directly before the action being described: in this case, go or gone.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

He characterized the economy as “good,” but also has worries that it’s become dominated by the build-out of AI data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Researchers say clinical trials will need to use carefully characterized and standardized mulberry preparations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

She characterized the recent prices as a record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Sylvia’s early childhood environment was characterized by volatility and inconsistency.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

She can be characterized as follows: cheerful, good-humored, kind and willing.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

I don’t think it was as simple as Reddington, perhaps, is characterizing the note, or as the media is characterizing the note.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

"CMDR's laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation for quantifying and characterizing microplastics in environmental samples," explains Lynch.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

Working evenings at the Harlem Hospital, he invented a method for characterizing bacterial organisms in patients with pneumonia, publishing his first paper at the age of 21.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

“It was a musical that was revolutionary and changed the game,” he said, characterizing the show as “a rock concert where a play breaks out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

I voiced these thoughts to Hugh, who denounced both me and the crowd, unironically characterizing the atmosphere as "carnivallike."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris