- present participle of determine.
determining
Example Sentences
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Their first game with No. 11 Croatia in suburban Dallas will go a long way toward determining who wins the group.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Around 12.9 million students nationwide registered for this year's "gaokao", according to the Ministry of Education, which for most is the sole determining factor in admission to a Chinese university.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
Each brokerage has its own process for determining allocations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
In today’s economy, “$20,000 is probably a good place to start for most people” when determining how much emergency savings their household needs, Igor Aronov, a financial planner and founder of FAR Financial, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
The tricky part is determining where the other punctuation marks go: inside or outside the closing parenthesis.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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