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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterize.

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Examples

  • Palin characterizes the diplomatic position of Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell as "beyond naive".

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Yet McCain characterizes the statements as a profound misunderstanding?

    Obama considers trip to Iraq 2008

  • Update: Mark Halperin characterizes Edwards 'doubts about Obama's toughness in a crass way that necessitates an apology.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Palin characterizes the diplomatic position of Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell as "beyond naive".

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Update: Mark Halperin characterizes Edwards 'doubts about Obama's toughness in a crass way that necessitates an apology.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • 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.

    Victoria and Albert, Allies in Love 2009

  • A love of truth, as the phrase characterizes Huxley, would necessarily produce a scholarly habit of mind.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

  • A love of truth, as the phrase characterizes Huxley, would necessarily produce a scholarly habit of mind.

    The Life of Huxley 2003

  • Famine again characterizes the world in the centuries following Roman agriculture until the development and application of science in the 19th century.

    There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch 1974

  • 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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