defining

Example Sentences

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This is a month that will go a long way to defining City's season.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

The splitter had been the defining pitch of the 1980s and the trend continued into the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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

Nevertheless, we treat facts as if they are equivalent to things, and dictionary definitions of ‘fact’ slide between defining facts as things and defining them as true beliefs.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton