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The effect on sentiment, the researchers find, comes not just from higher prices, but from how far and how often conditions have deviated from the relative stability that defined the prepandemic period.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

“The estate bears the name Shoemaker originally gave his villa, ‘Cedar Cliff’—a designation that eventually defined the very road on which it stands.”

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Talk to any musician, regardless of genre, and they will tell you Davis defined swagger and cool.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

That era was defined by a distinctly of-its-time approach to marketing and selling products—an approach that, at least initially, felt fresh.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

And his face looked as stony as the streets of the city—chiseled and sharply defined.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye