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And the definition of “consumer” includes any “subscriber of goods or services” from the provider.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
The CoC charter defines the membership as “persons and entities interested in collaborative, solution-oriented planning to address homelessness in LA County,” a definition that could easily include thousands of potential voters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The World Meteorological Organization last month said it expected this cycle to meet that definition before it peaks in December.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Anderson specialises in challenging UTI cases, and is leading a group of medical experts to develop a medical definition of chronic UTIs to differentiate it from other conditions.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
But de Vries’s conjecture predated the molecular definition of the gene.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Schools often adopt “cookie cutter” risk-management programs to fulfill compliance, but they emphasize legal definitions and lack cultural relevance and specific scenarios, Vitchers said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
To present an argument to an ITP, all this background knowledge must be entered, explicitly and formally, down to the simplest definitions of numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But critics say its broad definitions, severe penalties and scrutiny of even voluntary conversions risk drawing the state and the police into one of the most private decisions a person can make.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
I used to leaf through her book, reading only the footnotes, trying to memorize all those big definitions, trying to understand her indecipherable language.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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