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characterize

[kar-ik-tuh-rahyz] / ˈkær ɪk təˌraɪz /


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Proponents of the measure characterize the effort as procedural: It will firm up timelines, but projects still will be reviewed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Valthos builds AI systems to detect, characterize and mitigate emerging biological threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"This experiment develops techniques to better characterize the fidelity of hard quantum states under noise, increasing confidence that the quantum computer is solving a computationally hard problem."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Hartig told lawmakers that while the White House report is under review, "we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum."

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Since there had never been a republican chief executive, there was no readily available vocabulary to characterize such a creature, except the verbal traditions that had built up around European courts and kings.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Ms. Fernando, an environmental historian at Stony Brook University, writes about the encounters between what she characterizes as colonial and precolonial forms of knowledge during this period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

If one thing characterizes the past few years of major app releases, it’s “features users didn’t ask for.”

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026

Anadol Studio’s active creative partnership with Google deepened after Refik’s own more recent stays in the Sacred Village, taking advantage of what Neven characterizes as “the ethnobotanical knowledge that Indigenous tribes still possess.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Our encounters always leave me weary of the glum contentment that characterizes my life.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Analysts led by Matthew Lofting gently characterized BP’s recent tumultuous history as “chequered” but said the company’s balance sheet improvement means the stock is “no longer a poison pill.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The current status of the economy could be best described as a big divergence characterized by domestic weakness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The practice of re-enslavement was so widespread in some states that it was characterized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon as Slavery by Another Name.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The company stops short of characterizing the machine as a wholesale replacement for the analog string in all cases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

So do the bubblelike conditions that seem to be characterizing the U.S. stock market and private credit market.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

The testimony the experts would provide would also be very direct in characterizing his disabilities and illness.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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