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What we’re left with, for now anyway, is a murky, “I know it when I see it” definition of mine that no business owner can reliably apply.
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
Langtree-Marsh said although the name "doesn't exactly roll off the tongue", she was happy the definition "moves away from focusing solely on the ovaries".
From BBC • May 26, 2026
The term quantum advantage refers to quantum’s doing something “cheaper, faster, or more accurately” than classical computers, by Gambetta’s definition.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
They not only bring forth “great individuals and great deeds”—one traditional definition of history—by demanding human effort on a large scale, but they make these achievements memorable.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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