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charactering

verb

present participle of character

as in describing

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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Patrick Clancy, the prosecution’s first witness, spent two days on the stand describing her downward spiral despite her efforts to seek psychiatric treatment.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Maresca has also probably muddied the waters by refusing to identify a preferred holding midfielder and describing both new players in similar terms.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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Fazio hammered that note on a few occasions, characterizing Lamont’s tenure as one in which education is worse than when the governor started.

— Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
That meant probing the components and characterizing their functions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

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With his day-old stubble and the tough-guy bearing of someone who has spent decades portraying fearsome characters like Ray Donovan and the X-Men’s Sabretooth, Liev Schreiber doesn’t look like a man who is afraid of anything.

— Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026
Television crime dramas have done their part, too, often portraying the device as an oracle for uncovering the truth when conventional methods fail.

— Brian O'Neill, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

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Following the unification of Italy in the 19th century, these traditions increasingly came to be understood collectively as Italian cuisine, although regional differences remain a defining feature of the country’s cuisine.

— Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Sep. 2026
But the island’s most recent defining event was the devastation wrought by 2017’s Hurricane Irma.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026

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This year, homeowners associations representing more than 10,000 property owners filed a class action lawsuit against the Southern Nevada Water Authority in an attempt to block it.

— Paul Rogers, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
Round-trip latency could fall from the microsecond range to several hundred nanoseconds, representing a reduction of up to an order of magnitude.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

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