Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected.

Thanks to the Internet, the world is beginning to turn away from the centralization of resources and power that characterized the Industrial Revolution.

An epigram is a short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterized by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

He characterized her as lively.

The Bouteflika era was characterized by rapid infrastructure development.

After a careful survey of Bennu to characterize the asteroid and locate the most promising sample sites, OSIRIS-REx will collect between 60 to 2,000 grams of surface material with its robotic arm and return the sample to Earth via a detachable capsule in 2023.

Trench warfare characterized the 1914-1918 War.

The dialects of Spanish are characterized, among other things, by whether they pronounce "c" and "z" like "s" or don't.

He often adopts the behaviors and speech patterns that characterize the advantaged.

Some have characterized altruism as selfishness on behalf of others.