define
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The 25-year-old center’s age aligns well with Doncic, 27, and Reaves, 28, creating a potent trio that could define the franchise’s new era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
“Large salvos of missiles and drones define modern war,” Jensen and Oestreich wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“The people who understand and respect the language of vertical storytelling while continuing to push it forward creatively are going to help define where it goes next.”
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
"We will not let the vile actions of one man define our values and our integrity," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
To say that people were enslaved means this condition was forced on them; it does not define who they were.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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There are different ways academic research defines AI “exposure.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Pachocki defines alignment as a "high-level set of principles" that artificial intelligences should adhere to no matter what the task or scenario is.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Phil Jackson defines championship basketball for a reason,” Lakers governor Jeanie Buss said in a statement released by the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
There’s Mênis, which Nora defines as the anger of a society or a people.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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Among people who already had ADRD, glucosamine use was also associated with a 25% higher mortality risk, meaning a greater likelihood of death during a defined period of time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
This is what the industry calls "misalignment" - broadly defined as when AI machines do not act in humanity's best interests, such as by bending the rules.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Alice’s humanity is defined by her total rejection of the manufactured digital world and the havoc its creators wrought.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The law established a board of trustees to administer the new institution and defined its membership, powers and responsibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Many on Wall Street view a decline of at least 20% from a record high as defining a bear market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Wembley Stadium was long assumed to be the natural home for a meeting between the two defining British heavyweights of their generation.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Those results provided the evidence needed to establish MAL as a distinct blood group system, with AnWj as its defining antigen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Investors appear to be wondering, with good cause, how Tokyo will end up defining the “normal” in “policy normalization.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Where the Aristotelian universe had one centre, there were now potentially five different ways of defining the centre of the universe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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