characteristics
Americannoun
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Having beaten Piastri convincingly in 2024, and so entered 2025 as favourite, Norris struggled with the characteristics of the car in the early part of the season.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Protected characteristics include age, disability, race, pregnancy, sex and sexual orientation.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
This one attempts to look forward, capturing the characteristics that will allow companies to succeed in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"Women's salt-adding behavior, however, was associated with a wider range of social and dietary characteristics than men's," added co-author Dr. Débora Santos, a titular professor at Rio de Janeiro State University.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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