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“This is the definition of inflationary pressure starting to affect us,” a senior restaurant-industry executive told ISM.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
To consider the word, I looked up its definition in Salon’s dictionary of choice.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Her lawsuit alleges that the definition is “absent from the four corners of the policy and hidden from the insured” until their claim is denied.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
What Gyllenhaal was promoting was intangible, something that money couldn’t buy and no agent could secure: his personal definition of masculinity.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
This is now true by definition as, since 1983, the length of a meter has been set in relation to the speed of light rather than vice versa.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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