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"Judging a military deployment by whether it has solved a political crisis that, by definition, it cannot solve, would be misguided," Eledinov said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

What mattered was less that the meal satisfied any established definition of breakfast than that, sometime after waking, you had allowed yourself to be fed.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

One definition measures the weather; another measures its consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, external, one definition of genocide is "imposing measures intended to prevent births" within a "national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

And I know her definition of “tired” can fill volumes.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Rights group Amnesty International has said the case "relies on vague, overly broad and arbitrary definitions of 'subversion'".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

You might be surprised at how few stocks it takes to skew index funds—and how loosely they fit your definitions of “growth” or “value.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Conventional definitions of the working class often miss how people understand their own place in society.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

The states’ case hinges on whether a judge will accept the market definitions outlined in their lawsuit, Garcia and other analysts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Nevertheless, we treat facts as if they are equivalent to things, and dictionary definitions of ‘fact’ slide between defining facts as things and defining them as true beliefs.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton