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Sometimes in Northern Ireland, the definition of success is "nobody got hurt".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
He said he cannot believe, nearly ten years after the fire, that government officials, the fire safety industry and developers are still wrestling with the definition of what is safe.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Young people who end up playing in the NFL are, by definition, by far the fittest and strongest in their schools and colleges.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Still, Kennedy’s team believed they had clearance to unveil the definition, and planned a high-profile food policy event in August, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Indeed, because all facts are by definition true we tend to think all truths are facts.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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But critics say its broad definitions, severe penalties and scrutiny of even voluntary conversions risk drawing the state and the police into one of the most private decisions a person can make.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
When asked to specify what in the law backed its interpretation, the commission cited the separate definitions section and wouldn’t comment further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Armando Solar-Lezamathe, associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, told MarketWatch that definitions in the artificial-intelligence field, like artificial general intelligence and RSI, are sometimes a bit “fuzzy.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
We eat, avoiding any conversation about the situation with my parents, or going off to school in the fall, or definitions of what we are.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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