defining
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Oratomic CEO and co-founder, Dolev Bluvstein says the company’s approach to error correction is a defining and differentiating factor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The researchers confirmed that extreme debris disks have three defining characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
He added: "I owe an apology to my national team teammates for having left the camp... I apologise to the Portuguese people once again, but a broken word has, for me, a defining impact."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
That last one is how John solves the season’s overarching mystery, settling one of the story’s defining and tormented relationships into a peaceful place.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
But Newton’s genius involved defining these terms rigorously and linking them to each other via a nest of equations—thereby launching the science of mechanics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
