typify
verb (used with object)
to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
have typified
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present perfectof typify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They also suggest that the disinflation earlier this year may have been another of the false dawns that have typified recent Fed performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Gone are the stark, austere compositions that have typified much of the director’s earlier work like “Hunger,” “Shame” and his Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2020
The Brewers have typified the all-or-nothing approach that seems prevalent throughout baseball these days.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2017
Using high-powered computational tools, he also hopes to move beyond the suggestive correlations that have typified psychobiotic research to date, and instead make decisive discoveries about the mechanisms by which microbes affect brain function.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2015
The magic sleep from which there was an awakening, even after a hundred years, may have typified hypnotism and its strange power upon man.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura F. Kready
