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Do you use checklists to determine what and when to buy or sell?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She just wanted to teach Martin a lesson, but soon, social services intervene to determine whether the elderly couple has to be separated for Leslie’s safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

With fewer events to analyze, the trial had less statistical power to determine whether a meaningful difference existed between the two approaches.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Since these readings determine royalty and tax payments, the lab estimated that the errors could lead to an overstatement or understatement of a single well’s production value by as much as $36 million a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

It was impossible to determine how badly the Wall Street firms had gamed the system.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

At the heart of the discovery is a basic principle of materials science: The way a material's smallest components are arranged determines how that material behaves.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Under state law, magistrates are to “impose the least onerous conditions” when deciding bail and should set bail “as low as the court determines is necessary” to assure the defendant returns to court.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

This type of logic, which determines the law of the land by interpreting obscure bits of history over utilizing common sense, is what Gladwell calls “bananas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The network determines the fees that are charged each time a card is used, but the money is mostly pocketed by the issuer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It determines the core of the phrase’s meaning: in this case married his mother is a particular instance of marrying.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

After Thursday’s plunge I was determined to write and let readers know.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

She also monitored industry trends closely and, when she noticed a major shift, determined she couldn’t afford to prolong her hiatus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

"They are courageous, determined women and our focus has always been on them, not Russell Brand."

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

O’Brien said cellphone location records placed him in a brush-filled gully about 20 feet from where investigators determined the fire began.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

He turned back to look at the rest of the lab, but once the doors shut—with a soft, but determined click—the glass filled in with a pale gray color, like a cloud crossing the sky.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The findings may help researchers design future trials capable of determining whether coronary calcium scans can improve the efficiency of statin prescribing without compromising cardiovascular protection.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

We have a lot of reporting determining the key races, but if you look down the ballot beyond the candidates, you have initiatives and other legislation driven by sentiment.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

While higher energies make it easier to create the hot, dense conditions needed for quark-gluon plasma, lower-energy experiments may be more useful for determining precisely when those conditions are no longer sufficient.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

If the proposition passes, the state attorney general will be responsible for determining what services fall into that category.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Entropy is a way of measuring just how disordered that state is and of determining the likelihood of particular outcomes with further shuffles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson