defining

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The head coach and his staff will need no reminding they need to make that time count in what feels like a defining few months on Tyneside.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Innovation has been a defining feature in U.S. commercial aviation and government programs, helping them reach new heights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

“Job stability has become the defining feature of today’s workforce,” they wrote.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

This discovery fills that gap and provides direct evidence of when these defining features first appeared.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In time this oddly matched pair would play a large role in defining how the world viewed the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and, by extension, the very nature of the new Nazi state.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown