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defining

adjective as in climacteric

Strong matches

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"Usman probably isn't used to that type of confidence. That was a defining factor for the whole fight week."

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It disputed defining this as a ban and said any applications to reinstate cricket in the future would be assessed.

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"We can all see our country faces a choice, a defining choice," he will say.

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World champions, six straight Grand Slams, WXV winners and a record-breaking streak of 33 successive Test wins - England's dominance is now the defining feature of the women's rugby landscape.

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In practice, defining and then setting out to quantify the “housing you need” is an exercise fraught with messy data, guesstimation and an inconvenient need for judgement calls.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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