constitutive

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"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.

From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023

The trp operon is constitutive and remains ON by default, whereas the lac operon is repressible and therefore is OFF by default.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

It is constitutive of being human, just as are creativity, courage, ambition, attachment and love.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2020

But we shouldn’t see being social online and being subjected to dataveillance as mutually constitutive conditions.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

This number of degrees of constitutive freedom cannot be negative; therefore the number of possible phases that can coexist alongside each other cannot exceed m + 2.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various