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

Prognosis will become definite in proportion to the physician's knowledge not only of the ontogenetic history of the individual patient, but also of the phylogenetic history of the race.

From Origin and Nature of Emotions by Crile, George W. (Washington)

Its institutional forms had become definite, its terminology fixed, and the materials for a study of the life of the fourteenth century student are abundant.

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.

She was eager, too, to speak at once; a fear, which she would not allow to become definite, drove her upon the undertaking without delay.

From Demos by Gissing, George

It was a sort of relief to him, like a sick man, who, suffering from a general illness, vague and enervating, sees it become definite in sharp pain in some portion of his body.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert