‘she characterized the period as the decade of revolution’
‘It's just not accurate to characterize newspaper design as anything but dynamic.’
‘How could we characterise the nature of conflicts that have emerged throughout the world?’
‘Some historians characterize Du Bois's thinking as riddled with contradiction.’
‘Only the most revisionist historian would characterize the Confederacy as an insurgency.’
‘That would involve a characterisation of those laws and there might well be difficulty in characterising those laws as anything other than penal, when one looks at the purpose of the laws.’
‘A brand is simply a story or symbol, a way of describing or characterizing an idea, a product or service.’
‘The second stage is characterized as a period of change in syntax and morphology yet stability in lexicon and fluency.’
‘Marx characterises this period partly in terms of a change in the form of surplus value.’
‘In a context such as the present, it is necessary to identify and characterise the suggested error, and relate it to the legal rubric under which a decision is challenged.’
‘Mr. Kendall testified that what was being described he would characterize as a workmanship deficiency.’
‘He characterises descriptive metaphysics as formulating expressions of norms of representation.’
‘Mark clearly associates the storm with evil by characterizing the wind with the same language he used to describe the demon exorcised by Jesus in chapter 1.’
‘It is only when he is describing the problems of performing the symphonies that he characterises them at all.’
‘It used to be that when you introduced a new material, you spent 10 years characterizing it and understanding it.’
‘Second, this study suggests that drugs have to be characterized also in terms of the timescale of their effects.’
‘The text can be characterized in terms of its length and inherent interest.’
‘However, only a small number of hotspots have been characterized in detail.’
‘Because performance was so good, it was difficult to characterize differences associated with better or worse performance.’
‘Such reactions have been characterized to a considerable extent for this family of proteins that exists as dimers.’
‘A total of 112 such mutations have been isolated and characterized in this study.’
distinguish, make distinctive, mark, set apart, identify, specify, signalize, indicate, denote, designate, stamp
Late 16th century (in the sense ‘engrave, inscribe’): from French caractériser or medieval Latin characterizare, from Greek kharaktērizein, from kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’.
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