profiling
Americannoun
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the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in
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the use of these characteristics to determine whether a person may be engaged in illegal activity, as in
noun
Example Sentences
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The National Security Agency also developed a behavioral profiling program, SKYNET, to identify Al Qaeda couriers in Afghanistan.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
The paper, titled "Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling identifies cell types and functional variants contributing to major depression" by Anjali Chawla and Gustavo Turecki et al., was published in Nature Genetics.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
This passion for understanding the dimensions of profiling would forever shape Harris’ storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
But thanks to a breakthrough in DNA profiling, that's now changed.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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