definitively

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Yet, Vonn would not definitively say that her competitive skiing career is over, during a recent interview with Vanity Fair’s Elise Taylor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Oil prices are unlikely to fall much further until there is clarity on negotiations and traffic definitively resumes through the Strait of Hormuz, where around 20% of the world’s daily supplies of oil normally pass.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Despite a number of high-profile former rugby players having had the disease, there is no scientific evidence definitively linking MND with repeated concussion.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Those fonder of Hawthorne the magical realist will have plenty to appreciate as well, not least of which that Donatello’s true ancestry—whether human or faun—is never definitively established.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton