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“It’s their way of expressing their version, their definition, which is infinite in terms of how we can express and socially construct being Latino, being Mexican.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
One theory: There’s no unanimous definition of who belongs to the middle class.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Steinhauser said his group aims to preserve that definition and keep AI as the more general term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The move to explore a new definition for teenage relationship abuse comes as a result of this review.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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
Among the definitions of impeachable conduct provisionally approved early in the Constitutional Convention were “treason, bribery, or corruption” and then “treason or bribery.”
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
How much more evidence does the Alaska Supreme Court need that this decoy fits both definitions?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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
"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
Only the hollow, formal, intellectual definitions of the separate terms.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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