determinant
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“The jobs report is the big event of the week and will be a key determinant of whether the Fed hikes rates on September 16,” ING economist James Knightley said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After your basic financial needs are met, climate may be the single biggest determinant of day-to-day happiness.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
“The duration an individual, whether male or female, can maintain balance on one leg,” it concluded, “emerges as the most reliable determinant of aging, surpassing strength, gait, and other balance parameters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
You can test how “nicely” a function moves everything around in space by calculating something called the Jacobian determinant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Culture to us seems the great determinant of how human beings conduct themselves; in the relentless academic debate between “nature and nurture,” it is the “nurture” school which commands greater support from the bystanders.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Northwestern Medicine researchers identified the connection using a new index designed to capture several neighborhood social determinants of health at once.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Many social determinants of health influence longevity, he added, such as access to food, housing, and transportation.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
And you can’t talk about health without addressing its broader social determinants: housing, food security and financial stability.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
Plaid Cymru said it would address "the social determinants of mental health.. by ensuring that the public and third sectors work effectively together" if elected to government, and Labour has been asked for comment.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
First, Dobzhansky noted, genotypes were not the sole determinants of phenotypes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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