defining

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The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

This could mean three million barrels per day of additional oil might now hit the market, but there remain “many unknowns” right now around how Iran is defining ‘Iraq oil,’ Wan adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

“Job stability has become the defining feature of today’s workforce,” they wrote.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

This discovery fills that gap and provides direct evidence of when these defining features first appeared.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The engineers provided Hoover with long equations defining the relationships between wing shape and aerodynamic performance and instructed her to substitute into them other equations, formulas, and variables.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly