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[def-uh-nish-uhn] / ˌdɛf əˈnɪʃ ən /


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The Finds Liaison Officer will help you get the coins assessed by experts to determine if they meet the legal definition of "treasure" under the Treasure Act 1996, external.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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

By definition, those wobblers aren’t aerodynamic, so getting them deep is harder than it appears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

This is the essential definition of nobility, expanded upon over 178 episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

By this definition, though, going to the ballet is an experiment, while learning that the seats are uncomfortable and the drinks sold in the bar overpriced is a chance experience.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

And unlike other melting pots that demand assimilation, Brazil often assimilates itself to its diasporas, expanding its cultural definitions to include theirs in what it means to be Brazilian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

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

If one accepts the premises and definitions, one must accept what follows from them, but one can frequently reject premises or refine definitions or choose a different mathematical approach.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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