become definite

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“The idea is that the past history of the universe has become definite when someone or people now are observing things about the past universe.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

She was eager, too, to speak at once; a fear, which she would not allow to become definite, drove her upon the undertaking without delay.

From Demos by Gissing, George

The idea was long pondered and circuitously approached, but it will be seen from one of the following letters that it had become definite in 1903.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

In a word, the distinction between the literary and the scientific professions has become definite and wide, and can no longer be ignored in our systems of education.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons

The knowledge of the clinical symptoms has become definite only since the era of cerebral local anatomy and localization.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)