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Some have pondered if a subtlety here may be that the vetting advice wasn't definitive in its judgement, but the Foreign Office concluded it amounted to Lord Mandelson failing it and others did not.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Until a definitive end to the conflict emerges, Bitcoin is likely to tread water.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
"By focusing on how life spreads and interacts with environments, we can search for it without needing a perfect definition or a single definitive signal," said Harrison B. Smith.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
“We won’t have definitive evidence of second-round effects for a while,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Although Frederick Griffith’s experiment was the most definitive demonstration that the gene was a chemical, other scientists were also circling the idea.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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