authoritative
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The resolution welcomes the ICJ opinion "as an authoritative contribution to the clarification of existing international law" and calls on states to "comply with their respective obligations" to protect the global climate.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
To disagree with something that sounds authoritative and to trust your instinct enough to follow it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
He is editor-in-chief for Lloyd’s List, the most authoritative publication on shipping news, data and intelligence during a webinar hosted Monday by the Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy thinktank.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
Lead researcher Dr Nicholas Tiller explains: "They are designed to give very confident, very authoritative responses, and that conveys a sense of credibility, so the user assumes that it must know what it's talking about."
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
The printing press was the precondition for this new insistence that knowledge, no longer authoritative, might at last become reliable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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