definitively

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He also pushed Sauer to say whether his rule would deny birthright citizenship to all Native people, which the solicitor general could not answer definitively.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Oil prices are unlikely to fall much further until there is clarity on negotiations and traffic definitively resumes through the Strait of Hormuz, where around 20% of the world’s daily supplies of oil normally pass.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Xi’s motives for ousting Zhang may never be definitively known.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Despite a number of high-profile former rugby players having had the disease, there is no scientific evidence definitively linking MND with repeated concussion.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

It is not known definitively whether Mozart and Beethoven ever met, despite their lives overlapping by twenty-one years, but two more different artists, creatively or temperamentally, it is hard to imagine.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall