- present tense form of determine (3rd person singular).
determines
Example Sentences
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But the NFL could still take action if it determines one or both violated the league’s personal-conduct policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The study does not show that finger length directly determines brain size.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Other sensitive topics are what role it determines carbon capture technology can play in businesses or whether they can acquire carbon credits from programmes outside the EU that would be counted towards their emissions reductions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
As so often in Hitchcock’s work, the choice of milieus determines the suspense and the moral significance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The mutants clearly lacked some factor—a chemical—that determines the front versus the back of the fly.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
