become definite

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“The idea is that the past history of the universe has become definite when someone or people now are observing things about the past universe.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Problems become definite, and suggested explanations significant by a certain alternation between a wide and somewhat loose soaking in of relevant facts and a minutely accurate study of a few selected facts.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

The fear among the educated had become definite and rational.

From The Earth Trembled by Roe, Edward Payson

She was eager, too, to speak at once; a fear, which she would not allow to become definite, drove her upon the undertaking without delay.

From Demos by Gissing, George

It was a sort of relief to him, like a sick man, who, suffering from a general illness, vague and enervating, sees it become definite in sharp pain in some portion of his body.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert