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determinate

[dih-tur-muh-nit, dih-tur-muh-nayt] / dɪˈtɜr mə nɪt, dɪˈtɜr məˌneɪt /


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That could be for example, everyone convicted of manslaughter who is serving a determinate sentence - informally estimated as just under 500 people.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

That could be further reduced by excluding only those convicted of manslaughter who had been given a determinate sentence of more than 10 years, as an example.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Determinate tomatoes: McKeever makes the case for determinate tomatoes, which are tomatoes that stay bushy instead of vining out and have a more set production, as these have more compact root systems.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That's precisely what them men war determinated not ter be!

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser

The sulphuric compounds are related and yet opposed to the growth determinating phosphoric compounds.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann

Its character is such that it becomes the determinating factor of human adaptations to the conditions imposed by the environment, by envisaging the enduring and efficacious elements among these conditions as persons.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

The extent and the intensity of production have been and remain the determinating factors in the extent and kind of the means of production.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka

But even to-day what do we find the general reliance of the American mind in determinating this question?

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Alexander Crummell

Mind is the determinating principle; matter is indeterminate and indefinite.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker




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