definer

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Woodstock, taking place 100 miles away later that same summer, would become a generation definer with its top-grossing film and chart-topping soundtrack.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022

“The definer of the legislation wins this battle,” Luntz said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2021

Stepping into this role, that is a life definer.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2020

Wright paraphrases the hilariously named philosopher Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, writing that “the definer of all things” is “beyond wisdom, beyond denial.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

It would be of little profit to recapitulate here, even summarily, the principal definitions, each bearing the impress of the personal feeling of its definer, which have been given of religion.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)