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[def-uh-nish-uhn] / ˌdɛf əˈnɪʃ ən /


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But to have visible definition in your biceps, you have to put in the work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Young people who end up playing in the NFL are, by definition, by far the fittest and strongest in their schools and colleges.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"The definition has been kept so vague that almost any benefit accruing to a person can be considered or argued to be an allurement," said Abhay Thipsay, a retired Bombay High Court judge.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Department of Agriculture to develop a uniform definition of ultraprocessed foods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Your uncle Charley’s father and grandfather were custodians at Riverview. ‘Someone employed to clean and maintain a building’ is only the second definition of that word.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

But critics say its broad definitions, severe penalties and scrutiny of even voluntary conversions risk drawing the state and the police into one of the most private decisions a person can make.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The authority of the ICJ was built on the precise legal definitions established by figures like Raphael Lemkin, who coined “genocide,” and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, who helped shaped the concept of “crimes against humanity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

A message to Anthropic on its accounting definitions wasn’t returned.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Only the hollow, formal, intellectual definitions of the separate terms.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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