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Shoppers began trying to determine which seemingly unrelated groceries shared a supplier; someone even made a barcode-scanning app for precisely this purpose.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Rutland said it would be "at least a month" before he expected investigators to determine a cause, but responded to a suggestion circulating online that a hydrocarbon pipeline could have been hit by a munition.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Our objective was to preliminarily determine the effect of blueberry consumption on the gut microbiome, metabolites, and depressive symptoms."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

To determine what caused these differences, the scientists investigated the influence of male and female sex hormones.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Everyone participating in the talent show drew numbers backstage to determine who went first.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Voter registration records are based on a person’s physical residential address, which determines the districts where they can vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Financial Times reported that the mismatch was due to OpenAI investors trying to directly compare its annualized revenues with rival Anthropic, which determines this number differently.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The scion above it determines the type of fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

A trial of the facts is an option that is open to prosecutors if a court determines that a person is unfit to stand trial and criminal proceedings cannot go ahead.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Where, I want to ask, is the doctor who determines if I am losing my mind?

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

"I'm absolutely determined to restore public order", he vowed, adding that the government was ready to impose a state of emergency "if needed".

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Each match consists of a set number of singles and doubles matches, and the winner is determined by the team’s cumulative score.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The complete mummified male dog was determined to be at least 1,200 years old, making it the oldest radiocarbon-dated specimen recovered from Castillo de Huarmey so far.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Hush Hush interpolates Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, which the group sang in Turkish, a striking moment for a group determined to bring their language to an international audience.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

If the cottonmouths hadn’t been enraged before, they were now, determined to destroy the possessed branch that had just bludgeoned three of their friends.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The big challenge in making CEMs work, Shashua said, was determining how to verify the code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

So when, for instance, a federal agency like the Department of Veterans Affairs defines a medical term in determining which veterans get benefits, a court has limited discretion to second-guess that expert analysis.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

Engineers will continue refining its camera settings and determining the optimal configurations for its deformable mirrors, which can change shape to make extremely precise corrections to incoming light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Raman said she had used the phrase “gold standard” to describe Special Order 40, which was issued by Gates in 1979, prohibiting officers from stopping people for the sole purpose of determining their immigration status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It had begun the process of determining the world’s opinion about the new Germany.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown