characterized

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The 2025-26 Broadway season was characterized by long fallow periods interrupted by an onslaught of eagerly awaited openings.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

"This represents one of the best characterized samples of close in planets and will help us identify the most promising systems for future study."

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

More promisingly, the company sees RevPAR climbing 2% to 3% this year, and predicts an increase in earnings per share—a new, rosier outlook that management still characterized as “reasonably conservative.”

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Its leadership has been characterized by utter cluelessness for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Mutations in genes that specified macroscopic structures, such as limbs and wings, were the easiest to spot and the first to be characterized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee