defining

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They are one of the city’s defining institutions, capable of pulling politicians, celebrities, children’s television characters and millions of everyday fans into the same conversation.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

In the 1920s, Schrödinger built on that idea by defining hue, saturation, and lightness within a Riemannian model of color perception, using a metric that describes how people perceive color differences.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

Badenoch took issue with Matt Goodwin's stress on ethnicity as the key factor in defining Englishness.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Yet audiences in the thousands were turning up nightly to see Gibbard reanimate the peak-millennial classics that made him one of indie rock’s defining stars.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

In time this oddly matched pair would play a large role in defining how the world viewed the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and, by extension, the very nature of the new Nazi state.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown