ascertained
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But from Thames Verlet drove straight to Marsden Wharf, where he visited the Rainbow Warrior, ate a piece of cake, and ascertained the schedule for the evening.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Both Prieur and Mafart had been involved in planning the operation back in Paris—it was Prieur who had first ascertained the ship’s itinerary by calling Lloyd’s of London and posing as a journalist.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Norfolk Police said the cause of death could not be ascertained from the post-mortem examination on Thursday.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
The identity of the victim - thought to be a white man in his 40s who had been dead for several days - has still not been ascertained, despite a scan of DNA databases.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024
A cell’s metabolic identity—i.e., whether it was consuming lactose or glucose—could be ascertained not by the sequence of its genes, which was always constant, but by the amount of RNA that a gene was producing.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
