characterize
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City officials have sought to characterize the measure as closing a loophole that gave travel companies like Hotels.com and Trivago a discounted bed tax rate.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
"By capturing the faint light emitted by this filament, which traveled for just under 12 billion years to reach Earth, we were able to precisely characterize its shape," explains Davide Tornotti.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
But don’t confuse this backdrop for stagflation, a term developed during the 1970s to characterize a moribund economy and nosebleed levels of inflation due to large disruptions in energy prices.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
McCardel recalls Karp using the German military term “Auftragstaktik” — or mission-type tactics — to characterize Palantir’s FDE playbook.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.”
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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