become definite

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“The idea is that the past history of the universe has become definite when someone or people now are observing things about the past universe.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Boards of Trade often establish offices of inspection with brands upon grains, flour, butter, pork, etc., and these become definite parts of a contract which the government rightly enforces.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

In a word, the distinction between the literary and the scientific professions has become definite and wide, and can no longer be ignored in our systems of education.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons

The idea was long pondered and circuitously approached, but it will be seen from one of the following letters that it had become definite in 1903.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

By the end of the 14th century the position of the electors, both individually and as a corporate body, had become definite and precise.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various