constitutive

Example Sentences

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"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.

From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023

The trp operon is constitutive and remains ON by default, whereas the lac operon is repressible and therefore is OFF by default.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Board era, they ask, why and how do race and racism continue to play a constitutive role in America?

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2021

It is constitutive of being human, just as are creativity, courage, ambition, attachment and love.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2020

"How does it happen," Dewey asks, "that the absolute constitutive and intuitive Thought does such a poor and bungling job that it requires a finite discursive activity to patch up its products?"

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas