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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
Airlines have a lot of latitude here because the DOT definition of a downgraded fare is murky, McGee says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
The reality is by having a higher age rating than Spider-Man, it is by definition reducing the amount of people who can buy the game.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
A blouse, by definition blousy, should have a looser fabric: silk, rayon, chiffon.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
The lack of shared definitions across a fast-moving industry is also stalling AI safety efforts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 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
Conventional definitions of the working class often miss how people understand their own place in society.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“That one book contains the definitions of more than four-hundred fifty thousand words. Now, wasn’t I right, Nicholas? All this will mean so much more since you learned about it on your own.”
From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
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