- present tense form of determine (3rd person singular).
determines
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Under state law, magistrates are to “impose the least onerous conditions” when deciding bail and should set bail “as low as the court determines is necessary” to assure the defendant returns to court.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
This type of logic, which determines the law of the land by interpreting obscure bits of history over utilizing common sense, is what Gladwell calls “bananas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
What’s more, the ongoing price shock in energy markets isn’t just about headline benchmark prices as the price of crude oil is only part of what determines the cost to supply the world with fuel.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
They used mass photometry, a technique developed at Oxford that determines the mass of individual molecules by measuring the light they scatter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The mutants clearly lacked some factor—a chemical—that determines the front versus the back of the fly.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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