definitively
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Although receipt of the letter does not indicate that someone definitively cheated, an unspecified number of cases have been referred to district attorneys for prosecution, the spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"My hope is that we prove to players over time that this is definitively a good thing for the game and the community," Steranka says.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Only one matched perfectly, allowing the researchers to definitively identify the correct structures.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Perhaps the only screen actor as emblematically American as Jimmy Stewart is John Wayne; certainly the most definitively American film genre is the western.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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
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