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constitutive

[kon-sti-too-tiv, -tyoo-] / ˈkɒn stɪˌtu tɪv, -ˌtju- /


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It’s how Americans think about the texts that are constitutive of them.

From Slate May 8, 2024

"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

In their view, logic is a constitutive norm of reasoning—that is, logic constitutes what reasoning is.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

Board era, they ask, why and how do race and racism continue to play a constitutive role in America?

From Washington Post Jul. 2, 2021

The intrinsic constitutive principle which formally individuates the accidents of individually distinct substances is, according to Thomists generally, their essential relation to the individual substances in which they appear.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey




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