definitive
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“We are in active negotiations with multiple counterparties, but as of today, we’ve not executed a definitive lease agreement,” Fermi Chief Financial Officer Miles Everson said on a conference call Monday morning.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Even so, researchers have not reached a definitive conclusion.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
The IPL, critics argued, was a domestic proving ground - impressive, but not definitive.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
The allegations against Cesar Chavez represent a definitive puncturing of the myth surrounding the civil rights icon and necessitate a comprehensive reckoning with how Latino communities elevated him despite warning signs of moral failings.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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