determined
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Pierluigi Collina, the head of referees, is determined to speed up the matches and to reduce the potential for match-changing mistakes.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
OpenAI on Monday confidentially filed paperwork for its IPO and is reportedly targeting to raise more than $60 billion, but the company said it had not determined when it would begin listing on public markets.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Matthew W. O’Brien pointed at Rinderknecht and said investigators determined that he was the only person near the fire that began on Jan. 1.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
If the cottonmouths hadn’t been enraged before, they were now, determined to destroy the possessed branch that had just bludgeoned three of their friends.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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