- present tense form of characterize (3rd person singular).
characterizes
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He predicts a situation going forward he characterizes as “Schrödinger’s Strait,” whereby the chokepoint in the Iranian gulf is theoretically open but in practice, still closed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
“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
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
The total number of bits that characterizes an hour-long television program is about 1012.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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