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Sometimes in Northern Ireland, the definition of success is "nobody got hurt".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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
White House staffers were concerned that definition could cover the vast majority of food in U.S. grocery stores and support existing efforts to sue food companies over bad health outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
As California ushers in its certification label, she said, other states could adopt similar certification programs or develop their own definitions of ultraprocessed foods while a uniform federal definition is still in the works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
They not only bring forth “great individuals and great deeds”—one traditional definition of history—by demanding human effort on a large scale, but they make these achievements memorable.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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As California ushers in its certification label, she said, other states could adopt similar certification programs or develop their own definitions of ultraprocessed foods while a uniform federal definition is still in the works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"We ask that Australia clarify how exactly 'harm' and 'risks' shall be determined... ensuring these definitions do not encroach on protected speech," the US said in its submission.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Here are definitions for some of terms used above.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Terms like “reasonable,” “material,” “equivalent” and “systematic disagreement” appear throughout the document with no definitions attached.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
She had tried to read the whole dictionary once, so she knew the definitions of a lot of words that started with “a.”
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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