constitutive
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It’s how Americans think about the texts that are constitutive of them.
From Slate ● May 8, 2024
"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.
From Reuters ● Apr. 15, 2023
In their view, logic is a constitutive norm of reasoning—that is, logic constitutes what reasoning is.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
It is constitutive of being human, just as are creativity, courage, ambition, attachment and love.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2020
And the new properties are not merely additive of preceding properties; they are constitutive, and characterize the higher evolutionary products as such.
From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
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