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If you think about the color wheel, you are often defined by your inverse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
For a movie defined by this nowhereness, it’s all the more telling that the filmmakers took pains to let us know exactly where we are.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
Clement, so exquisitely low-key in “Flight of the Conchords,” ramps up that energy just a few clicks for a character defined in part by his passivity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
This was a leader who had decided to stop being defined by what he hadn't won.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
He coined more than fifty medical terms still in use today and defined a host of new diseases.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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