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Both jobs entailed tedious rewrite work that would have fit into Mr. Posner’s capacious definition of plagiarism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
On the agency’s website, an asterisk sits in place of a number, with a note stating the CDC is working to determine a standardized definition for measles deaths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Open AI models are, by definition, harder to control, as users can alter their parameters -- potentially for malicious purposes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
The “Mormon Wives,” a group of women associated with the social media clique known as #MomTok, never neatly fit the internet’s definition of tradwives, either.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
I had trouble reconciling the definition of the word with the fact that we'd been living in the Bay Area for ten years.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
A message to Anthropic on its accounting definitions wasn’t returned.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The reason comes down to the definitions institutional investors use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The definitions appear below the frames, reminding us that the men were not just shot with a firearm but also by a camera, shot being shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Rights group Amnesty International has said the case "relies on vague, overly broad and arbitrary definitions of 'subversion'".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The definitions say cults are mostly formed around religious beliefs and practices.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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