definitively
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Trump talked to The Wall Street Journal for eight minutes on Sunday External link but wouldn’t say definitively when the war would end.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Xi’s motives for ousting Zhang may never be definitively known.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
Despite a number of high-profile former rugby players having had the disease, there is no scientific evidence definitively linking MND with repeated concussion.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
“I probably can’t definitively explain it,” says writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal about that punctuation.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
It is not known definitively whether Mozart and Beethoven ever met, despite their lives overlapping by twenty-one years, but two more different artists, creatively or temperamentally, it is hard to imagine.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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