characterize
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City officials have sought to characterize the measure as closing a loophole that gave travel companies like Hotels.com and Trivago a discounted bed tax rate.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
"We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
But without the proper documentation or court-ordered child support, the Internal Revenue Service could characterize this money as a gift or settlement.
From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026
“Assets which the administrators characterize as missing were held through nominee structures for the benefit of MFS and its creditors,” the spokeswoman said, adding that the administrators had been given detailed information about those assets.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
These are the dual strengths, the essential opposites, that characterize human thinking.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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