- present participle of characterize.
characterizing
Example Sentences
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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
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 Peruvian government’s clinics and doctors, who had never warmed to Socios en Salud, began characterizing the organization as a group of interfering outsiders.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
