character sketch

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Noun
  • Despite his high profile, Dane appeared to try to wear his fame lightly.
    VICTORIA CRAW The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Advertisement Dane’s rise to stardom Per an ABC profile, Dane, born in November 1972 to an architect and interior designer father and a homemaker mother, was raised in San Francisco.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Archaeologists continued to dig into the distant past to discover a wealth of animals that once walked Lunan Beach, including red deer and roe deer as well as humans—some of whom were barefoot, according to the University of Aberdeen.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • His lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, sought to show that his past had formed him, but there was a cruel irony in the reference.
    Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Velasquez attended Morton High School and loved baseball, dirt bike riding, four-wheeling, fishing and cars, according to his obituary.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • More from The Providence Journal Find the latest obituaries here.
    Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Ficke was Moe’s right-hand man with the Nuggets from 1982-84, the Abbott to his Costello, at the start of one of the most successful — and absolutely bonkers — periods of the team’s history.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, all 17 of the album's tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Bad Bunny the first Latin artist in history to have over 100 entries on the chart.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Seife is not committing pathography.
    James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • Emmy winner Paris Barclay‘s 105-minute chronicle of the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Billy Preston is a treasure trove for classic rock and soul music fans.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Fennell's film chronicles only the first half of the novel, with several characters omitted and plot points changed along the way.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Character sketch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/character%20sketch. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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