defining

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“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”

From Salon • Jun. 8, 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

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

Carney has described AI as the defining technology of the era, one that already is changing how people work, learn and connect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

She smiled, teasing, “There’s gotta be something here for you, Mariah. Besides, you can’t have only one defining personality trait.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith