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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a defining character in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that plays a significant role or has a strong influence in a particular context or situation.
Example: "Her resilience is a defining character in her journey to success."
Alternatives: "a key figure in" or "a crucial element in".
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The 51-year-old Maryland resident has emerged as a defining character in the ongoing saga of the country's housing crisis, from the headiest days of the bubble to the current flood of foreclosures.
Despite this complexity, the arrangement of the mesogleal structures supporting the marginal muscles display low levels of homoplasy and appear to be synapomorphic for multiple clades of species recognizable through molecular and ecological characters; restoring the relevance of the marginal musculature as a defining character in Zoanthidea systematics.
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If something represents a defining character quality in you - one that is obvious to most people - then it is also indicative of your inability (or unwillingness) to do the opposite.
In a defining character scene, the film's protagonist, played by the lily-white Kirsten Dunst, approaches Isis with a huge check to help pay for the Clovers' entry-fee to Nationals.
Neural crest cells are a defining character of vertebrates, patterning the face and much of the head and pharyngeal or gill region in the embryo.
The neural crest, a defining character of vertebrates1, is of prime importance to their evolutionary origin2.
For example, Mayer (2006) documented fundamental differences in how the excretory organs (nephridia) develop between onychophorans and annelids that weaken a character, "segmentally arranged metanephridia," that had traditionally been cited as a defining character of Articulata.
A defining character of animals is the need to incorporate other organisms, or their products, for nourishment.
Before molecular phylogenetics the placement of these genera within Pezizomycotina remained tentative; morphological characters were misleading because they do not produce multicellular ascocarps, a defining character of Pezizomycotina.
To be the defining character in front of scores of thousands in his theatre and multimillions watching on television.
It's a place to take a look at the faces of the defining characters in the nation's history.
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