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- adjective Not
characterized - adjective Not furnished with a
character reference
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Examples
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The Army then determined he was a potential danger to himself and others, and Kazmierczak was given an "uncharacterized" discharge and kicked out of the service.
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For goods that have not before been commoditized, though, there's a lot of uncharacterized market risk, and only firms whose model revolves around large volumes at thin margin will bear the risk of the good becoming a commodity unexpectedly soon.
The Creation of Ritual Goods, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Thus the new results "are pretty exciting" because they indicate that much of the biology underlying obesity is uncharacterized, said Elizabeth K. Speliotes, a physician and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston who was involved with b oth studies.
Gene Sites Tied to Obesity Identified in New Research Ron Winslow 2010
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However, the film hardly suffers for that; it's still an enjoyable, tightly-plotted thriller that is as much a time travel story as it is a study of how one man (who otherwise goes uncharacterized) handles a crisis.
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When I started this novel in 2004, I had a title, "The Red Nun: A Tale of Unfinished Desires", and a school (unnamed) and some nuns (unnamed) and a cluster of girls (unnamed and uncharacterized, except I knew that as a group they were catalytic and that there was something in their combined backgrounds that would raise psychological ghosts, the kind I'm most wary of).
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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And testing the theory on humans was ethically impossible: how could one justify infecting a human with a new, uncharacterized species of bacteria to prove that it caused gastritis and predisposed to cancer?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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When I started this novel in 2004, I had a title, "The Red Nun: A Tale of Unfinished Desires", and a school (unnamed) and some nuns (unnamed) and a cluster of girls (unnamed and uncharacterized, except I knew that as a group they were catalytic and that there was something in their combined backgrounds that would raise psychological ghosts, the kind I'm most wary of).
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Alexandra Carr 2010
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And testing the theory on humans was ethically impossible: how could one justify infecting a human with a new, uncharacterized species of bacteria to prove that it caused gastritis and predisposed to cancer?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And testing the theory on humans was ethically impossible: how could one justify infecting a human with a new, uncharacterized species of bacteria to prove that it caused gastritis and predisposed to cancer?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Most projected underground storage formations remain uncharacterized - nobody knows what's really down there -- so no one is quite sure whether the CO2 will stay put.
David Sassoon: Are Environmentalists and the Fossil Fuel Industry Calling a Truce? 2009
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