definition
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“This is the definition of inflationary pressure starting to affect us,” a senior restaurant-industry executive told ISM.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
To be sure, what theologians were investigating was, by definition, mysterious—unprovable in the way that scientific propositions are provable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
What Gyllenhaal was promoting was intangible, something that money couldn’t buy and no agent could secure: his personal definition of masculinity.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
But using your privilege and power to advocate for what you really believe in is the true definition of masculinity, one that a man only understands once he falls and picks himself back up again.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
“I don’t like your definition of a friend.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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