characterizes

Example Sentences

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Department of Education characterizes the investigation as under Title IX, a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination, including sexual harassment, sexual assault and violence in any education program or activity receiving federal funding.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

This is partly why she pursued the research: She wanted to figure out what characterizes the few with the fattest paychecks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

“I Shot Andy Warhol” characterizes Solanas in a way that neither the press nor her manifesto could.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

What it characterizes, again, completely without precedent, as core powers of the presidency among which it lists pardons.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 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