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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
characterize .
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Examples
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Palin characterizes the diplomatic position of Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell as "beyond naive".
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Yet McCain characterizes the statements as a profound misunderstanding?
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Update: Mark Halperin characterizes Edwards 'doubts about Obama's toughness in a crass way that necessitates an apology.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Palin characterizes the diplomatic position of Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell as "beyond naive".
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Update: Mark Halperin characterizes Edwards 'doubts about Obama's toughness in a crass way that necessitates an apology.
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Queen Victoria (1819-1901) is known to Americans perhaps more than any other British monarch in part because her name characterizes an ethos or outlook that is oddly critical to America's own cultural self-definition.
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A love of truth, as the phrase characterizes Huxley, would necessarily produce a scholarly habit of mind.
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A love of truth, as the phrase characterizes Huxley, would necessarily produce a scholarly habit of mind.
The Life of Huxley 2003
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Famine again characterizes the world in the centuries following Roman agriculture until the development and application of science in the 19th century.
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A love of truth, as the phrase characterizes Huxley, would necessarily produce a scholarly habit of mind.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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