as in characterized
to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group
formerly charactered as "the dark ages," that period of history may not have been quite so benighted as once thought
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Recent Examples of charactered
Meanwhile, protesters gathered in Times Square to stand against what organizers charactered as a war against Venezuela.
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Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charactered
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Steering away from the Banda music that has characterized her sound and biggest hits, the Mexican-American singer experiments with reggae, R&B, and folk cumbia on this eight-track set that also includes powerful audio affirmations by the singer.—
Jessica Roiz,
Billboard,
8 Nov. 2025
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The two-hour-plus interview was characterized by Carlson’s failure to directly challenge Fuentes’s points.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Nov. 2025
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Greenberg later described the behind-the-scenes conflict in stark terms.—
Elizabeth Rosner,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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According to the person who described Tuesday's decisions to the AP, Quinn and Kingsbury met in the morning to talk about the future of the team's offense, which features quarterback Jayden Daniels.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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The first adaptation of author Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel came in 1931, when Boris Karloff portrayed the monster in Frankenstein.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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On the big screen, Harford cared for Sandra Dee’s Rosalie Stocker in The Wild and the Innocent (1959) and portrayed the opportunistic older sister of Natalie Wood’s unstable title character in Inside Daisy Clover (1965), the melodrama directed by Robert Mulligan.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Nov. 2025
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Mentality and late goals defined their seven-game winning run to start the campaign but there were flaws in those performances and they were exposed further in defeats.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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There was a need for more reliable information about concussions and uniformity in terms of how they were being defined in terms of severity.—
NPR,
NPR,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Charactered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charactered. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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