characteristic
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Petersen-Smith said that, in the context of the global war on terror, the term low boil is useful because it describes a type of second stage that has been characteristic of recent U.S. wars.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
In characteristic fashion, Stokes was in the middle of a tireless spell on Sunday, attempting to haul his team back into the third Test, when the news broke.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Hemani instead insists that courts examine not merely whether two laws share a surface characteristic but whether they target the same conduct, pursue the same objectives, and operate in roughly the same way.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
While engineers have spent decades trying to create “explainable AI,” a defining characteristic of today’s large language models is that they remain biased black boxes that are capricious in their decision-making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
So they use parameter to mean a boundary, a characteristic, a component, an element, a feature, an ingredient, a part, a perimeter, a quality, or a requirement.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
“The market is starting to exhibit the characteristics of an upcycle,” Le Peuch said on a call with analysts following results.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
These characteristics are associated with healthier aging in brain cells and added further support to the findings from the human neuron experiments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Gold’s structural characteristics continue to make it an effective hedge against sovereign risk, persistent inflation, and geopolitical uncertainty, while central bank buying should provide long-term support to gold prices, she adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
EEA studies compare an event's characteristics, such as its probability and intensity in the current climate, to a "counterfactual" world without human-caused emissions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Dijksterhuis gave the test to eighty volunteers, flashing the car’s characteristics on a screen in front of them.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing characteristic
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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