define

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Sterner tests await, of course, with the fate of weekend talks likely to define the market’s next moves, particularly if oil prices react more dramatically to the strait’s continuing closure.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Of those two well-known styles, growth is the recent standout and the easier of the two to define.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Research indicates that retirees who define themselves primarily through their careers are vulnerable to prolonged distress.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of birds gather here to feed and rest before lifting north again, following migratory paths far older than the farms and highways that now define the valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Devastating as the destruction was, it would be the human stories and the human suffering that would best define what would become known as the Great Molasses Flood.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler