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in character

  1. Consistent with someone's general personality or behavior. For example, Her failure to answer the invitation was completely in character. This usage dates from the mid-1700s, as does the antonym, out of character, as in It was out of character for him to refuse the assignment.



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The sweet spot for those new homes, Glaeser and Gyourko show, was in “high price, low density” tracts—places that were in high demand, relative to the metropolitan average, and very suburban in character.

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Often it's because there is a feeling the cars need to be slowed down, or changed in character in some ways; sometimes it's because it has been perceived that the engine formula needs to change.

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But I think it doesn’t make you a better actor to really stay in character, as they say, for 24 hours.

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You can be on camera at any moment, so people would absolutely stay in character through anything that happened.

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“The May Co., they could have easily knocked that down and put a box there, but they didn’t and now it’s the Academy Museum. The public is coming around to understanding that a lot of these modern buildings that are put up don’t match in character or quality some of these buildings from the past.”

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