decisive
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The sound of disappointment echoed around the stadium as Altrincham missed the target three times, before Rosaire Longelo slotted home the decisive penalty to seal a 3-2 shootout victory for Notts County.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Even as experimental support for altermagnetism accumulated, researchers still needed a decisive way to establish that it represented a genuinely distinct magnetic phase.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Nevertheless, Moscow will be watching closely as the war -- which has now lasted longer than World War I -- grinds towards its five-year milestone with neither side apparently close to a decisive breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
But with their relentless lineup, ferocious bullpen and unyielding will, the Brewers steamrolled their way through October, ending with a 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Wednesday’s decisive Game 5.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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