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Further tests were done by a pathologist and forensic anthropologist, but a cause of death could not be ascertained.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

We drove alongside some of the vehicles, peered in windows, and ascertained it was nothing.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

The identity of the victim - thought to be a white man in his 40s who had been dead for several days - has still not been ascertained, despite a scan of DNA databases.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

The scientists ascertained this from data compiled by the Juno spacecraft, which made extremely close flybys of Io in December 2023 and February 2024.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024

I ascertained that they wished me to perform, and it behove me to comply, that I might avoid detection.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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