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Heading into training camp, Rams coach Sean McVay says a Super Bowl title won’t necessarily determine if the season has been a success or failure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Pro Ref, led by chief refereeing officer Howard Webb, has been in discussions with the leagues to determine how to tackle the issue.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The researchers next placed the larvae inside miniature pressure chambers to determine how much pressure the air sacs could withstand before collapsing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

U.S. authorities are examining private-credit deals involving Mark Walter’s insurance firms to determine whether fraud occurred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

“First we must determine: Was the velocipede lost, abandoned, or stolen? In my view it makes all the difference. For if it was lost or abandoned, then I agree with Ashton. Finders keepers.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Volatility is a key component in the pricing of options, as it determines how likely a strike price will be reached, depending on the time to expiry.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

The study does not show that finger length directly determines brain size.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Other sensitive topics are what role it determines carbon capture technology can play in businesses or whether they can acquire carbon credits from programmes outside the EU that would be counted towards their emissions reductions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

The team determines which names from the management staff are engraved on the trophy, but all names must be approved by the Hockey Hall of Fame and NHL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal, because this determines on how small a length scale we can look.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

She refers to her “shallow nature,” writing that “I feel like an upstream salmon, determined to reach the shallow water, no matter how fast the river is running the other way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Authorities said the suspect is known to police and has ties to Islamist circles in Berlin but also stressed investigators have not yet determined a motive or whether he acted alone.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Buoyed by the development, the small southern African country is determined to go much further in its drive for local processing of its resources, even eyeing its own production of rechargeable lithium batteries.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

The results of those attacks couldn’t be determined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

I pictured her running through the bayou determined and strong-willed.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Another challenge can be determining what constitutes a "reasonable adjustment," a sticking point which can be what ends up being decided in a tribunal.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

And though a film’s contextual significance is an important part of determining what is and isn’t a timeless movie, applicability isn’t everything, either.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

His attorneys have since appealed both the convictions and the sentence, arguing the judge improperly relied on allegations connected to charges for which he was acquitted when determining his punishment.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Ashtekar and his colleagues have now proposed a new method for determining a black hole's entropy, a quantity that measures disorder and, according to the second law of thermodynamics, can never decrease.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Supersonic aircraft and missiles were determining the course of the Cold War, but so too would “science textbooks and racial relations.”

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly