definite
Example Sentences
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“It brings back some definite memories,” he told me.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
“There’s a definite naiveté,” Tom Fry, who built trading software at Morgan Stanley before co-founding AI startup Agentcy, said about the finance community’s response.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
One asked: "Who am I to say I don't believe that someone is struggling with their mental health? It's not like a chest infection where there is definite proof of illness."
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
“There’s definite value in different types of minoxidil, delivering it differently, and thinking about how it might work better,” Cotsarelis said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
But nowadays everybody knows that zero can’t really sit anywhere on the number line, because it has a definite numerical value of its own.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.