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[dih-fahyn] / dɪˈfaɪn /




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Earlier this year, he called “all men are created equal,” that famous coinage of the Declaration, the words that “came to define America’s culture.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The goal was to define hue, saturation, and lightness using only the geometric property of highest color similarity.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

A new term has been coined by dermatologists and academics: cosmeticorexia, which they define as having an unhealthy obsession with achieving "flawless" skin from a young age, leading to an obsessive use of cosmetic products.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

To secure the extraordinary unrealized profits that define so many portfolios, investors could consider our preferred hedging strategy: ratio spreads.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

The nervousness she’d felt earlier in the morning had been replaced by something hard to define.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti




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