character sketch

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Noun
  • GLP-1s often come with side effects, most commonly gastrointestinal, an improved tolerability profile is another key differentiator that companies are looking at with amylin treatments that target another gut hormone, alongside treating related conditions.
    Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And Orange County parents definitely fit the profile of parents who’d pay for a vanity song and video for their kids.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • That’s a far cry from the engines of NASCAR’s past, which produced more than 900 hp and made the Cup Series’ screaming cars stand out as unique.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Nyla Brooks scored 21 points, Nyla Harris added 19 and North Carolina rolled past Wake Forest.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The couple did not have any children, according to an obituary for Ray, who died in Nashville in 1989.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Tarver is from Palm Beach County and worked for the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, according to his obituary.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Stonewall Monument is the only site within the national park system dedicated to LGBTQ+ history, which makes its preservation all the more meaningful to activists and historians.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Maegan Ortiz, executive director of the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, or IDEPSCA, cited the LAPD’s history of using excessive force against civilians and said that in the recent immigration raids, officers have sometimes inflamed instead of defused tensions.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Seife is not committing pathography.
    James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.
    Leah Downey, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Netflix also dropped a chronicle of Australian snowboarder Scotty James in December.
    Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Character sketch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/character%20sketch. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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