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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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Asking Out Loud Which brings me to the last person in this column, and the only one who solved the problem rather than describing it.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Though each of the nine reports labeled the cause of death as asphyxiation due to burial in snow, sections describing the conditions of the bodies were redacted.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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Sony clearly wants to thread the needle of appropriately characterizing the new film while stoking audience nostalgia for its counterpart.

— Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
The prosecution opposed the motion, characterizing the pink clothing as victim advocacy rather than jury intimidation.

— Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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As the Korean Peninsula swelters through a heat wave, North Korean state media has touted everything from dog-meat soup to chicken broth as ways to cope, while portraying Kim Jong Un as a leader who endures harsh conditions alongside his people.

— Reuters, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026
Hyde-Smith, first appointed and then elected in 2018, is using a familiar playbook of portraying her Democratic opponent as too liberal for Mississippi.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

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Intensity has been the defining word of Liverpool’s pre-season so far, with it constantly being referenced by any player interviewed about what has changed since Iraola’s arrival.

— Andy Jones, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Bryant told Fortune the volunteer waitlist is growing by roughly 1,000 people a day, turning what started as an art project about AI dependence into a strange reversal of the AI boom’s defining anxiety.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

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But the president's endorsement didn't prevent other Republicans from jumping into the race for a full term representing South Carolina.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Abdul Rashid Yob, who heads a farmers association representing 200,000 members nationwide, pointed to previous negative experience with the herbicide-tolerant Clearfield rice.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

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