ascertained

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The exact number of crew members could not be ascertained but the source added it could be between six and eight people.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

We drove alongside some of the vehicles, peered in windows, and ascertained it was nothing.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

She’s ascertained that she’s not a child and not an adult; not the sick little girl named Marcy who she used to be, nor her maker’s favorite.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025

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

Categories, functions, and meanings have to be ascertained empirically, by running little experiments such as substituting a phrase whose category you don’t know for one you do know and seeing whether the sentence still works.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker